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
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
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.
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
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
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
Profiles of five investigators appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2018.
Full profiles at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
MRI scans from thousands of individuals link obsessive compulsive disorder to structural abnormalities in brain’s cortex.
Full story at Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Synthetic RNA can correct an error in genetic processing that leads to a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tracing autism’s symptoms back to problems in the developing brain could lead to better diagnoses and treatments.
Full story at BrainFacts