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New Technique to Study Infants Brain.

...onal magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study infant brain activity in response to speech. They say thi...st, however, was not able to determine whether the infant brains were able to distinguish between the two types of speech. Prior to this study, most doctors ...

Few Simple Steps to Lower The Incidence Of SIDS

The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS, could be significantly lowered by taking simple precautions // say researchers according to a recent study. Researchers conducted studies in 20 centers in Europe, looking at 60 variables from the medical records of 745 SIDS ...

Infant Fevers Found to Reduce Allergy Risk Later In Life

...s .It also was interesting that the more fevers an infant had, the less likely it was that he or she would be sensitive to allergies. Researchers say this study supports the hygiene hypothesis, which contends that early exposure to infections might protect children against allergic diseases later in life....

Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...ancy has little impact on the developing fetus and infant outcome.”...

The Use Of Viagra for Babies Questioned

...oxide. Both infants responded to the treatment.One infant had his pulmonary blood pressure stay low for mont... that for perhaps years. Researchers say the other infant continues to struggle, but Viagra seems to be helping. However, researchers warn Viagra is not wit...

More Complications Seen In Women With Epilepsy

...uncontrolled seizures can lead to miscarriages and infant death. They can also contribute to problems with cognitive development in children. In fact, children of women with epilepsy have a two-fold increased risk of developing cognitive difficulties. Many women with epilepsy take anti-epileptic drugs (AED...

The Beneficial Effects Of Breast Feeding

... Thus researchers say these findings suggest that infant nutrition permanently affects the lipoprotein profile later in life and that breast feeding has indeed a beneficial effect....

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

...chers say prenatal exposure to the flu meaning the infant is exposed to the virus because the mother has contracted the disease leads to an increased risk of schizophrenia. Most of these studies have relied on the mother’s memory of infection or tried to link the two conditions by looking at people who were...

Limiting Infants Exposure To Smoke At Home

...ntal tobacco smoke increases the risk // of sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, and other respiratory cond...co smoke in the home, such as no smoking while the infant sleeps or limiting the number of cigarettes, produced no reduction in the cotinine levels and had no...

fMRI Offers Insight Into An Infants Brain

...onal magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study infant brain activity in response to speech. They say thi...st, however, was not able to determine whether the infant brains were able to distinguish between the two types of speech. Prior to this study, most doctors ...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...tanding the impacts of early childhood stress. The infant monkeys were divided into three groups. The first ...iability. In another study, researchers separated infant monkeys from their mothers during the first week of life and then placed them in social groups of ot...

Kids with Congenital Heart Disease Found To Have Low I.Q Levels

...at age 8 had scored within the normal range on the infant tests. But more than half of those who scored below normal at age 8 had not scored below normal at age 1. In conclusion researchers say that their findings show that early tests may be only partially helpful in determining which children are at risk ...

Avoiding Drugs During Pregnancy

...ancy has little impact on the developing fetus and infant outcome....

Baby Talking Is Good For Your Child

...than listening to normal adult talk. Baby talk or infant directed (ID) speech helps in distinguishing the w...sh words from nonsense sentences after exposure to infant directed speech, but not after hearing the same in adult way of talking. The researchers are of the...

Pregnant mothers dental health can lead to pre-term babies

...ria on the pregnancy term and birth weights of the infant do exist. Previously only periodontal pathogens seem to have an effect on the pregnant mother’s health. The results of the study show that not only the bacteria do affect the duration of pregnancy and birth weight; there is no results to show that tr...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

...ays a current study. Babies who are raised on the infant formulations show rapid weight gain from the first week after birth only. This weight gain may continue and may lead to a strong tendency of becoming obese for life. The study was done on a group of American babies who were raised on baby formula. T...

Overweight mothers overfeed obese children

...ntists who had observed mother interact with their infant children said that overweight mothers tend// to ov...d linked maternal body weight and composition with infant feeding patterns and maternal-infant interactions. They tested their findings through 24-hour metabo...

Colic in babies may be related to maternal depression and stress

... depression also go through difficulty in handling infant tantrums, parenting responsibilities, lower self e...rs have termed colic as the parental threshold for infant crying spells. Mothers who come from dysfunctional families with poor communications, role confusion...

Language development linked to Foxp2 gene

...ith Foxp2 gene mutations, results demonstrate that infant mice with the mutations emitted disrupted ultrasonic vocalizations when separated from their mothers. The set of mice, which had severe form of mutations of the gene, had the most problem in expressing any form of communication to its other members o...

Listeria Food Poisoning Can Be Dangerous In Pregnant Women And Elderly

...n miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth of an infant with life threatening infection. Listeriosis in elderly people or those with impaired immune function include high fever, shivering, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. The usual incubation period for the L. monocytogenes infection is three t...

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