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Prospective, multiyear epidemiologic studies have proven to be highly effective in discovering preventable risk factors for chronic disease. Investigations such as the Framingham Heart Study have produced blueprints for disease prevention and saved millions of lives and billions of dollars. To discover preventable environmental risk factors for disease in children, the US Congress directed the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, through the Children’s Health Act of 2000, to conduct the National Children’s Study. The National Children’s Study is hypothesis-driven and will seek information on environmental risks and individual susceptibility factors for asthma, birth defects, dyslexia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis…

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The nature of the fundamental deficit underlying reading disability is the subject of a long-standing debate. We previously found that dyslexics with additional learning difficulties (D-LDs) perform poorly in simple auditory tasks. We now tried to determine whether these deficits relate to stimulus or task complexity. We found that the degree of impairment was dependent on task rather than stimulus complexity. D-LDs could adequately detect and identify mild frequency changes in simple pure tones and minimal phonemic changes in complex speech sounds when task required only simple same–different discriminations. However, when task required the identification of the direction of frequency change or the ordinal position of a repeated tona…

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Hand preference for writing and associations with selected demographic and behavioral variables in 255,100 subjects: the BBC internet study.
Brain Cogn. 2006 Nov;62(2):177-89
Authors: Peters M, Reimers S, Manning JT
In an Internet study unrelated to handedness, 134,317 female and 120,783 male participants answered a graded question as to which hand they preferred for writing. This allowed determination of hand preference patterns across 7 ethnic groups. Sex differences in left-handedness were found in 4 ethnic groups, favoring males, while no significant sex differences were found in three of the groups. Prevalence of left-handedness in the largest of the ethnic groups (self-labelled as “Wh…

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The North American IBD Genetics Consortium has linked a gene mutation to the development of Crohn’s disease, a chronic, relapsing inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects 100 to 150 of every 100,000 people of European ancestry. The consortium is composed of IBD genetics research groups from seven centers in North America, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and this effort was led by teams at Yale University and the University of Pittsburgh. [click link for full article]Original post by It’s My Life, People

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Research presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology suggests that illness behavior, specifically complaints of recurrent abdominal pain, in girls with mothers who have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) may be intensified in smaller families, where children have more one-on-one contact with their mothers. [click link for full article]Original post by It’s My Life, People

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This study reports the results of a long-term follow-up of an exercise-based approach to dyslexia-related disorders (Reynolds, Nicolson, & Hambly, Dyslexia, 2003; 9(1): 48-71). In the initial study, children at risk of dyslexia were identified in 3 years of a junior school. One half then undertook a 6 month, home-based exercise programme. Evaluation after 6 months indicated that the exercise group improved significantly more than the controls on a range of cognitive and motor skills. Critics had suggested that the improvement might be attributable to artifactual issues including Hawthorne effects; an initial literacy imbalance between the groups; and inclusion of non-dyslexic participants. The present study evaluated the issue of whether th…

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN (MARKET WIRE) New data suggest that Strattera(R) (atomoxetine HCl) improved ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents who had both ADHD and a reading disorder, like dyslexia. Results were announced today at a meeting of child and adolescent psychiatrists. (Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)Original post by Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

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There’s good news for kids and teens with migraines. Nearly 40 percent of kids and teens with migraine no longer had headaches 10 years later, and another 20 percent developed less severe headaches, according to a new study published in the October 24, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.Kids with a family member with migraines were most likely to still have migraines 10 years later. [click link for full article]Original post by It’s My Life, People

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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Volume 47, Issue 10, Page 1041-1050, Nov 2006. (Source: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)Original post by Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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If you’ve ever wondered how you recognize your mother’s voice without seeing her face or how you discern your cell phone’s ring in a crowded room, researchers may have another piece of the answer.Their work indicates that once you figure out your mother’s voice is a good thing - most days - fairly significant changes occur in the sensory cortex, the part of the brain that responds to sound. [click link for full article]Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today

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