Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out
(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room ...
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Students with depression twice as likely to drop out of college (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school, new research shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills
Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Children who are depressed, anxious or aggressive in first grade risk being victimized later on
Children entering first grade with signs of depression and anxiety or excessive aggression are at risk of being chronically victimized by their classmates by third grade. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that ...
May 15, 2009 |
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Study links ADHD medicine with better test scores
(AP) -- Children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers in the first large, long-term study suggesting this kind of benefit from the widely ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 27, 2009 |
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New direction in teaching computer science emphasizes activity, interaction, critique
Contrary to the words of a popular song, there is such a thing as the real world. Computer science faculty at Washington University in St. Louis are exposing their undergraduate students to learning in ways that prepare ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Early bad behaviour predicts troubled path, according to study
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems the ill-advised roads taken early in life are mostly one-way.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2009 |
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