Significant rise in mental health admissions for young people in last decade

January 23, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

There was a 65% increase in the number of children and young people being admitted to general acute medical wards in hospitals in England because of a mental health concern

Adults diagnosed with ADHD may have reduced life expectancies

January 23, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Adults who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be living shorter lives than they should, finds a world-first study led by UCL researchers. The research, published

SIDS discovery could ID babies at risk of sudden death

January 23, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research revealing the fingerprints of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome within blood samples could open the door to simple tests to identify babies at

Childhood epilepsy may predispose to memory disorders later in life

January 23, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers from the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University in Finland and the University of Wisconsin in the United States demonstrated that individuals who had childhood epilepsy have an

Recommendations for studying the impact of AI on young people’s mental health

January 22, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

A new peer-reviewed paper from experts at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, highlights the need for a clear framework when it comes to AI research, given the rapid

Building sentence structure may be language-specific

January 22, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS Biology, scientists from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics, Donders Institute

Automatic speech recognition on par with humans in noisy conditions

January 20, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even surpass human

Violence on TV: What happens to children who watch?

January 20, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, Professor at the Université de Montreal’s School of Psychoeducation, long-term associated risks of early exposure to violent content in childhood and later

Study shows effectiveness of method to stem nearsightedness

January 20, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Capping ten years of work to stem the tide of nearsightedness, David Berntsen, Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry and chair of Clinical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Optometry,

New study paves way for immunotherapies tailored for childhood cancers

January 20, 2025 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Sweden have determined how children’s immune systems react to different kinds of cancer depending on their age. The study,