Archive: 02/19/2008
Effective ADHD treatment found for children with fragile X syndrome
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common hereditary form of mental retardation. Many children with FXS also suffer from attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which complicates social relationships at ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 19, 2008 |
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'Internet predator' stereotypes debunked in new study
Contrary to stereotype, most Internet sex offenders are not adults who target young children by posing as another youth, luring children to meetings, and then abducting or forcibly raping them, according to researchers who ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Wizkid changes concept of how people interact with machines
There's a kid waiting to meet you at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Like any kid, it will amuse you, it will ask you lots of questions, and it might even bother you a little bit. But unlike most kids, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Building brains: Mammalian-like neurogenesis in fruit flies
A new way of generating brain cells has been uncovered in Drosophila. The findings, published this week in the online open access journal Neural Development, reveal that this novel mode of neurogenesis is very similar to tha ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Huge proportion of maternal deaths worldwide are preventable
A study published in PLoS Medicine this week suggests that of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa, more may die from treatable infectious diseases than from conditions directly linked to pre ...
Feb 19, 2008 |
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