A new study shows that partners of cancer survivors are susceptible to the same stresses as cancer survivors themselves over the long term, and in some cases, suffer more quality of life-related effects than survivors.
Each year an estimated 20 million children are born with low birth weight worldwide, more than 95% of them in developing countries.
A study of young adult rats by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provides evidence that explains exactly how exposure to lead during brain development produces learning deficits.
A mild head injury can increase your chance of developing a sleep disorder, according to a study published in the April 3, 2007, issue of Neurology?, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Although newborn babies in rich countries routinely have their hearing tested, the major global health agencies, such as the World Bank and Unicef, have not prioritized funding for newborn hearing tests in poor countries, writes Dr Bolajoko Olusanya (University of Lagos, Nigeria and University College London, UK) in PLoS Medicine.
Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers.
Patients taking medications to treat bipolar disorder are more likely to get well faster and stay well if they receive intensive psychotherapy, according to results from the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD), funded by the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Many Alzheimer’s patients are dying earlier because of sedatives they are being prescribed, according to new groundbreaking research from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
Single parents concerned about the developmental health of their children may want to choose new partners slowly and deliberately. New research shows that the more transitions children go through in their living situation, the more likely they are to behave badly.
Scientists led by UCL (University College London) have induced dyscalculia in subjects without the maths learning difficulty for the first time.