Parents of children with unilateral congenital cataracts (UCC) may wonder how long to patch, and whether extended periods of patching might affect their child's development or cause undue stress for the child or family, particularly ...
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Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children's eyes move when they turn their heads. They found that kids who carry a variant of a gene that is associated with ...
Feb 28, 2024
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Parents and caregivers of school-aged children are all too familiar with the after-school conversation that sounds a little something like:
Feb 19, 2024
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Whether infants at 5 months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes. This has now been demonstrated by researchers at Uppsala University and Karolinska ...
Nov 27, 2023
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It is generally believed that the adaptability of the adult brain mainly takes place in the cortex. However, a new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows that the thalamus, a relay station for incoming ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Aerobic glycolysis, the process by which cells transform glucose into lactate, is key for eye development in mammals, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.
Jul 14, 2023
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Matching the sight and sound of speech—a face to a voice—in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development.
Jun 20, 2023
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A dearth of pediatric data collected using artificial intelligence (AI) tools could compromise the understanding of early sleep patterns.
Apr 26, 2023
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Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nov 1, 2022
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a preclinical model of the leading cause of central vision loss in older individuals and used it to identify new treatment modalities and drug targets.
Jan 20, 2022
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