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Jul 18
Jul 18 Do Fidget Spinners Help Kids Focus?

Jennifer Michalowski
Q&A, BrainFacts

No one had tested the claim that fidget spinners improve concentration in children with ADHD, so child psychologist Paulo Graziano set up a study to find out if it was true.

Full story at BrainFacts

Jul 12
Jul 12 Genetics Reveal Which Patients Will Have Cognitive Benefits From Antipsychotic Medications

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

The cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are often the most debilitating and difficult to treat. Genetic findings could enable a more personalized approach to managing them.

Jun 27
Jun 27 Interactive Parent-Child Therapy Reduced Depression Symptoms in Very Young Children

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Children between the ages of three and seven who have been diagnosed with depression benefit from parent-child therapy with an emphasis on emotional development.

Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Jun 26
Jun 26 Schizophrenia-Linked Genes Leave Developing Brains Vulnerable During Complicated Pregnancies

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Schizophrenia is uncommon even among people who inherit many schizophrenia-associated genetic variants—unless their mothers experienced serious complications during pregnancy.

Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Jun 22
Jun 22 How Does Parental Separation Affect a Child's Brain?

Jennifer Michalowski
Q&A, BrainFacts

Pediatrics and neuroscience professor Charles Nelson discusses changes he and his colleagues have observed in the brains of children who spent time in Romanian orphanages.

June 2018. Full story at BrainFacts

May 23
May 23 HHMI Investigator Profiles

Jennifer Michalowski
Profile, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Profiles of five investigators appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2018.

Full profiles at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

May 22
May 22 Cortical Imaging Study Offers Clues to Causes of OCD

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

MRI scans from thousands of individuals link obsessive compulsive disorder to structural abnormalities in brain’s cortex.

Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Apr 30
Apr 30 Therapeutic RNA Corrects Splicing Defect that Causes Familial Dysautonomia

Jennifer Michalowski
News, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Synthetic RNA can correct an error in genetic processing that leads to a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder.

Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Apr 12
Apr 12 The Roots of Autism

Jennifer Michalowski
Feature, BrainFacts

Tracing autism’s symptoms back to problems in the developing brain could lead to better diagnoses and treatments.

Full story at BrainFacts

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