We can prevent violence by enhancing early brain development and reducing exposure to toxins.
Many flame retardants raise health concerns, including cancer, hormone disruption, and harmful effects on brain development.
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The packaging claimed the DHA the vitamins contained would help vision and brain development in children.
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from fish oil protects the heart and may even help brain development .
John Walsh, a professor of gerontology at USC, studies the effect of intense exercise on brain development.
Her research examines how early life experience may influence brain development, moral functioning and character in children and adults.
Here, it acts on gene-expression and disrupts brain activity, brain development or both.
Currently, it is allowed only in cases of rape, abnormal brain development or when the mother's life is at risk.
He believes that psychiatric problems, such as schizophrenia, drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder generally arise from irregular brain development.
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The researchers say evidence points to exposure to male hormones, such as testosterone, before birth affecting these brain development patterns.
The US team showed that DISC1 plays a key role in normal brain development and the growth of individual neurons.
As knowledge of the brain expands, it may become more possible to map music's influence on the brain and brain development.
The teeming trillions of bacteria in the digestive tracts of mice have been shown to affect the animals' brain development and behaviour.
Early experiences can have a profound and lifelong impact on brain development.
NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that scientists believe early detection may eventually allow them to alter the course of brain development in these children.
"We'll have a better opportunity to understand these disorders once we have a better grip on normal brain development", he told BBC News.
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He's heading the Symphony Project, one of the first longitudinal studies of its kind on the effects of musical training on brain development.
The scientists raised mice lacking normal gut microflora, then compared their behavior, brain chemistry and brain development to mice having normal gut bacteria.
Researchers found that genes relating to sensory perception, hearing and brain development showed "accelerated evolution" in all three, but particularly in humans and gorillas.
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As far as the brain development genes are concerned, these probably reflect some of the behavioural differences we now see in the two canids.
Several previous studies have shown that eating fish during pregnancy helped in the baby's brain development and in reducing the risk of post-partum depression.
Climate scientists can also find kinship with Dr. Herbert Needleman, who identified a link between lead contamination and impaired childhood brain development in the 1970s.
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Spielmann says omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are essential for optimal brain development, the best sources for the baby being breast milk or whole milk.
Professor Gus Baker, a neuropsychologist, followed 600 babies from birth to aged six and found a marked difference in the brain development of some of the children.
"Early intervention is key, because brain development starts before birth, " says Dr. Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development in Nashville, Tennessee.
Experts aren't sure how organophosphates might interfere with fetal brain development, although they do know that in insects the pesticides slow the breakdown of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter.
Flame retardants, which are found in textiles, computer casings, sofa foam and other household items, have been shown to interfere with thyroid hormone, essential for healthy brain development.
The goal of this joint effort is to drive the behavioral change of caregivers of children 0-4 in targeted neighborhoods by educating them on early childhood brain development.
Low iron levels have been linked to brain development problems.
If, as the Times says, these influences are powerful enough to affect brain development in young people, they surely must have some impact on sales force productivity for adults.
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