Category: PEDIATRIC

Banning friendships can backfire: Moms who ‘meddle’ make bad behavior worse

Delinquent activities almost always occur outside of the home and away from adult supervision, so it is only natural for parents to blame peers for their child’s bad behavior. Not

Belief in academic ability key factor in academic success for low-income students

A strong belief in their own academic ability can help children from low-income families defy the odds and achieve academic success, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin. The

New AI can ID brain patterns related to specific behavior

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her team have developed a new AI algorithm that can

Early exposure to diverse faces helps babies overcome prejudices later in life

Babies who have more diverse social contacts in the first years of their life can get over their prejudices more easily by the age of 17. That’s according to research

Risky play exercises an ancestral need to push limits

With schools nationwide back in session, millions of children across the United States will clamber up the jungle gyms and hang from the monkey bars that have been a fixture

Wildfire smoke exposure boost risk of mental illness in youth, study suggests

Each additional day of exposure to wildfire smoke and other extreme forms of dirty air boosts risk of mental illness in youth a little more, according to a new University

Getting autism right | ScienceDaily

To a group of autistic adults participating in a Rutgers study, giddiness manifests like “bees”; small moments of joy are like “a nice coffee in the morning” that yields “a

Researchers test ChatGPT, other AI models against real-world students

William Hersh, M.D., who has taught generations of medical and clinical informatics students at Oregon Health & Science University, found himself curious about the growing influence of artificial intelligence. He

Reducing the cultural bias of AI with one sentence

Cultural values and traditions differ across the globe, but large language models (LLMs), used in text-generating programs such as ChatGPT, have a tendency to reflect values from English-speaking and Protestant

Like humans, artificial minds can ‘learn by thinking’

Some of the greatest discoveries don’t come merely from observations but from thinking. Einstein developed theories about relativity through thought experiments, and Galileo derived insights about gravity through mental simulations.