Almost 10 percent of the world population suffers dyslexia. Establishing an early diagnosis would allow the development of training programs to palliate this disorder. We now may be nearer to reaching this goal thanks to a study associating auditory processing in children to their reading skills. The results offer a new approach for detecting the risk before the children learn to read.
HIV+ mothers who possess a strong neutralizing antibody response may be more likely to pass the virus on to her infant through breast feeding. In addition, infants born to mothers with a strong antibody response are significantly more likely to have a serious illness or death, regardless of whether or not they acquire the virus, report investigators.
Workplace incivility is taking over our organizations, professional relationships and everyday interactions. According to researchers, understanding why incivility happens and how to address it starts with awareness.
For students in preschool, speaking two languages may be better than one, especially for developing inhibitory control. That idea isn’t new, but a new study took a longitudinal approach to examine the bilingual advantage hypothesis, which suggests that the demands associated with managing two languages confer cognitive advantages that extend beyond the language domain.
Babies who suffer from jaundice after birth are treated with shortwave light. Researchers have now developed illuminated pajamas that replace the treatment in an incubator. This means newborns can get healthy while warm and happy in their mothers’ arms.
The worldwide pattern of religious affiliation at the time of death is expected to change over the next 50 years, with distinct regional trends. This is the first study to analyze the demographics of religious affiliation at the time of death on a global scale and to make projections until 2060. Despite the importance of religious affiliation for health- and death-related behavior, there have been few global predictions of this kind.
A new study has linked signs of heightened arousal and reactivity – a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – to overactivity of the locus coeruleus (LC), a brain region that mediates arousal and reactivity. By combining bodily responses and brain imaging data researchers have provided direct human evidence for a theory over 30 years old.
