From the University of Illinois press release: Researchers have found a way to study how our brains assess the behavior – and likely future actions – of others during competitive social interactions. Their study, described…
From the Concordia University press release: Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development.…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of “work-oriented” skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and…
From the Max Planck Institute press release: The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore self-organize,…
From the American Sociological Association press release via EurekAlert!: Research continues to support a connection between instability in the home and school performance in adolescents, but a new study in the January issue of Sociology…
From the Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert!: New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development…
From the Children’s Medical Hospital press release via MedicalXPress: Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children’s Hospital…
From the University of Missouri press release: While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come…
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill press release: Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefitting from their early experiences in a variety…