http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Pregnant women who struggle with migraine headaches should never use medicines containing the ingredient valproate because they can lower the IQ scores of their children, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-fda-pregnant-women-migraine-drugs.html Medications Mon, 06 May 2013 18:24:19 EST news287083452 Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-big-bird-sesame-street.html Neuroscience Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:00:05 EST news276434099 The persistent, dependent use of marijuana before age 18 has been shown to cause lasting harm to a person's intelligence, attention and memory, according to an international research team. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-adolescent-pot-mental-deficits.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:00:02 EST news265288632 A Duke University-led study of North Carolina toddlers suggests that exposure to potentially toxic flame-retardant chemicals may be higher in nonwhite toddlers than in white toddlers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-socioeconomics-affect-toddlers-exposure-flame.html Health Wed, 23 May 2012 04:27:00 EST news256966012 (Medical Xpress) -- A new study involving Oxford researchers suggests that babies who are breast-fed or bottle-fed to a schedule do not perform academically as well at school as their demand-fed peers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-baby-demand-contribute-higher-iq.html Health Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:04:38 EST news251449454 An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-physical-children-potentially-long-term.html Health Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:11 EST news247751956 IQ, the standard measure of intelligence, can increase or fall significantly during our teenage years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust, and these changes are associated with changes to the structure of our brains. The findings may have implications for testing and streaming of children during their school years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-iq-fall-significantly-adolescence-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:13 EST news238247580