From the University of Granada media release: Cognitive performance of adolescent girls who walk to school is better than that of girls who travel by bus or car. Moreover, cognitive performance is also better in…
From the American Friends of Tel Aviv University media release: We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University have…
From the University of Maryland Medical Center media release: Regular marijuana use in adolescence, but not adulthood, may permanently impair brain function and cognition, and may increase the risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders such…
From the University of Alabama at Birmingham media release: Adults often hear what they should be doing to improve their health. But many of these known wellness behaviors are important for kids, too, and two…
From the University of Oregon media release: An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children’s behavior and brain functions supporting attention and reduced…
From the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid press release via ScienceDaily: Good students smoke less, according to a study in which Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) has participated and which highlights the fact that…
From the University of Chicago press release via MedicalXpress: The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release via ScienceDaily: Where a child lives makes a difference in how demographics and other factors influence algebra performance, and policies should take into account local variation,…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and…
From the University of Oregon press release via EurekAlert!: An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children’s behavior and brain functions supporting attention…