No school interventions for 1 in 3 kids with ADHD
Lehigh University researchers found that one in three students with ADHD received no school-based interventions and two of three received no classroom management....
read moreEducation does not appear to help protect against dementia
Although some studies have theorized that the extent of your education might help protect against dementia, a new piece of research found that night to be true. However, the lead researcher does think that doing activities later in life...
read moreHow Music Helps Learning
Researchers from McGill University in Canada determined that music can motivate learning and activate the brain’s reward system. They used MRI to watch how enjoyable music motivated people’s brain to learn and try to earn rewards....
read moreHow Language-Learning Boosts the Brain
New research out of Switzerland has shown that students who seriously committed to learning a new language had growth in several areas of the brain. The hippocampus, which is associated with learning and spatial navigation, and the outmost layer...
read moreHow bullying affects the brain
New research shoes that kids and teens who are chronically bullied have physical structural changes in the brain, affecting attention, motivation, reward sensitivity, conditioning and emotional processing....
read moreBlood test could help diagnose Alzheimer’s
Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have devised a blood test that could test for Alzheimer’s biomarkers before the appearance of obvious symptoms....
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