http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Research published today in the Lancet Neurology shows that taking the antiepileptic drug valproate during pregnancy affects the IQ of children up to the age of six. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-reveals-long-term-effects-child-iq.html Medications Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:30:02 EST news278098291 (Medical Xpress)—Contrary to conventional wisdom that cognitive function declines beginning in the mid-40s, aging does not correlate with a deteriorating ability to think for ourselves.  These are the findings of one of the first projects to investigate the connection between cognitive health, aging and decision-making capacity.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-age-impair-decision-making-capabilities.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:44:53 EST news277627486 Adults who consume dairy products at least once daily have higher cognitive function than those who rarely or never drink milk or eat dairy foods, according to a new study by researchers from the University of South Australia and University of Maine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dairy-products-adult-diets-cognitive.html Health Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:11:50 EST news236322694 Although most teens have the knowledge and reasoning ability to make decisions as rationally as adults, their tendency to make much riskier choices suggests that they still lack some key component of wise decision making. Why is this so? Because adolescents may not bother to use those thinking skills before they act. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at Temple University that appears in the journal Child Development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:54:47 EST news227501669