From the University of California – Santa Barbara media release: If you think your inability to concentrate is a hopeless condition, think again — and breathe, and focus. According to a study by researchers at…
From the University of Kansas, Life Span Institute media release: University of Kansas scientists have found that infants who were fed formula enriched with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) from birth to 12 months scored…
From the University of Warwick media release: New research suggests children don’t understand competitive behaviour until around the age of four. A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and University of Salzburg found…
From the Association for Psychological Science media release: Sometimes it’s just not your day: First you can’t remember where you put your car keys, then you forget about an important meeting at work. On days…
From the University of Montreal media release: Every hourly increase in daily television watching at 29 months of age is associated with diminished vocabulary and math skills, classroom engagement (which is largely determined by attention…
From the IFT media release: Because of a diet low in fish and seafood, children and adults in North America and other parts of the world, have a “nutrition gap” of omega-3 fatty acids, particularly…
From the Florida State University media release: A new Florida State University study has found that adolescent boys who are hurt in just two physical fights suffer a loss in IQ that is roughly equivalent…
From the JAMA Network Journals media release (with additional JAMA editorial at end): Breastfeeding longer is associated with better receptive language at 3 years of age and verbal and nonverbal intelligence at age 7 years,…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum media release: Whenever we have to acquire new knowledge under stress, the brain deploys unconscious rather than conscious learning processes. Neuroscientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered that this switch from…
From the University of Bristol media release: Researchers studying a type of cell found in the trillions in our brain have made an important discovery as to how it responds to brain injury and disease…