Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants less than one year old understand social dominance and use relative size（相对大小，相对量） to predict who will prevail when two individuals' goals conflict. The finding is presen...
Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage（脑内出血） (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, diab...
Intensive early education programs for low-income children have been shown to yield numerous educational benefits, but few studies have looked more broadly at their impact on health and health behaviors. A new study conducted by researchers at Columb...
The cocktail of hormones cascading（串联，传递信息） through depressed mothers' bodies may play an important role in the development of their unborn children's brains. A higher level of depression in mothers during pregnancy was associated w...
Many brain imaging studies have reported that tobacco smoking is associated with large-scale and wide-spread structural brain abnormalities（畸形，异常） . The cerebral cortex（大脑皮层） is a specific area of the brain responsible for m...
Even though most people are aware that good oral health is essential for the overall health of both mother and child, misunderstandings about the safety of dental（牙科的） care during pregnancy may cause pregnant women to avoid seeing their den...
Top English psychologist Dr. Aric Sigman said we must prevent children under three from watching television or risk irreversibly damaging the ir health, the Daily Mail reported. About 80 percent of brain development happens before we are three, and s...
Both the bully and the victim's individual characteristics, rather than the wider social environment, explain why bullying（恃强凌弱） occurs, according to Swedish teenagers. The new study, by Dr. Robert Thornberg and Sven Knutsen from Linkping...
Elderly patients with kidney failure get kidney transplants more often than they did a decade ago, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology（肾脏学） (CJASN). The results s...
In a report published in the Oct. 20 issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center say animal and human data suggest gene therapy to the brain may be able to treat patients with maj...
