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Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between socioeconomic classes.

Foster + Partners has recently completed the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, a new research facility within the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

BRAIN DRAIN - UK researchers have found further evidence of the lingering mental impacts of COVID-19 in people who have recovered from the disease.

/PRNewswire/ -- Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the familys nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new...

/PRNewswire/ -- Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the familys nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new...

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Dance training with music can slow the progression of Parkinsons disease A new study published in Brain Sciences today, shows patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinsons disease (PD) can slow the progress of the disease by participating in dance training with music for one-and-a-quarter hours per week. Over the course of three years, this activity was found to reduce daily motor issues such as those related to balance and speech, which often lead to social isolation. Joseph DeSouza, senior autho...

Study shows weekly dance training can benefit people with Parkinsons disease ANI | Updated: Jul 08, 2021 08:26 IST Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): A new study has shown that dancing with music can halt the most debilitating symptoms of Parkinsons disease. The study, published in the journal Brain Sciences, found that patients with mild-to-moderate Parkinsons disease (PD) can slow the progress of the disease by participating in dance training with music for ...

Show more Boston, Massachusetts. 1970. A group of mothers and young children assembles outside the offices of the local TV station. It’s the first phase of a fight to improve kids’ TV that would go all the way to the United States Senate. Matthew Syed looks at how kids TV got smart, and what we can learn about the developing mind from the programme makers who led the way. In the late 1960s, children’s television in the US was dominated by cheap cartoons and adverts for sug...

Prenatal THC and CBD exposure impairs offsprings ability to respond to fluoxetine Scientists at Indiana University have found that significant amounts of the two main components of cannabis, THC and CBD, enter the embryonic brain of mice in utero and impair the mices ability as adults to respond to fluoxetine, a drug commonly used to treat anxiety and depression and known by the brand name Prozac. The study suggests that when the developing brain is exposed to THC or CBD, normal interactions be...