Neuroscience
How motor neurons develop into subtypes that activate different muscles
Motor neurons play a vital role in movement, linking the central nervous system with different muscles in the body.
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Health
Study: Household pesticide use harms infant motor development
Ixel Hernandez-Castro grew up next to a dairy farm near Fresno, California, where she remembers a plane would fly by on weekends and spray the fields surrounding her family home with pesticides.
Jan 7, 2022
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Pediatrics
Clumsy kids can be fit, too
Clumsy kids can be as aerobically fit as their peers with better motor skills, a new Finnish study shows. The results are based on research conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Medical research
Uncovering the clock that sets the speed of embryo development
Why do pregnancies last longer in some species than others? Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found the clock that sets the speed of embryonic development and discovered the mechanism is based on how proteins ...
Sep 17, 2020
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Neuroscience
Study: Big brains allow dexterous hands
People are skilled with their hands, but take a long time to learn dexterous abilities. It takes babies generally around five months before they can purposely grip an object. Learning more complicated skills such as eating ...
Jul 24, 2020
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Pediatrics
Significant factors in the development of children's motor skills
A recent study among three- to seven-year-old children shows that children's motor skills benefit if a child was older and participated in organised sports. Additionally, the study provided information about the importance ...
May 27, 2020
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Health
Plasticizers may contribute to motor control problems in girls
Scientists at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have uncovered a link between prenatal exposure to phthalates—a ubiquitous group of plasticizers and odor-enhancing chemicals—and deficits ...
Jan 6, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
Children with HIV score below HIV-negative peers in cognitive, motor function tests
Children who acquired HIV in utero or during birth or breastfeeding did not perform as well as their peers who do not have HIV on tests measuring cognitive ability, motor function and attention, according to a report published ...
Dec 18, 2019
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Pediatrics
Writing and reading starts with children's hands-on play
Perhaps evolution's most wondrous manifestation is visible in the unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand. The miracle of the hand-brain connection, a development that probably began about three ...
Nov 5, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify molecular process that could accelerate recovery from nerve injuries
Twenty million Americans suffer from peripheral nerve injuries, which can be caused by traumas such as combat wounds and motorcycle crashes as well as medical disorders including diabetes. These injuries can have a devastating ...
Oct 2, 2019
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