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Music affects cognitive function Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:36AMPlaying an instrument seems to make learning math and foreign languages easier, but researchers aren’t sure why. Taylor Bredberg is an ardent fan of the indie band Grizzly Bear and the TV series “Lost,” an amateur filmmaker and a doodler of figures that bring to mind Tim Burton’s kinetic grostesques.
Forbes India: the education of Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:20AMMinister's education bill is ambitious but he has to convince the states.
Raising awareness Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:03AMA Woodstock High School paraprofessional is working to make others aware of a disease that's taken over his life. Dennis Conway will spend this month raising awareness about multiple sclerosis, a...
Game on? Video-game ownership may interfere with young boys' academic functioning Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:56PMParents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children.
Tennis gets kids moving Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 3:03PMBRUNSWICK — First Lady, Michelle Obama, has picked up the fight against childhood obesity by promoting fitness and nutrition for kids.
Emotional Computer Tutor Improves Girls' Math Scores Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:48PMAs schools gear up for statewide math testing this spring, some students will help to fine-tune a computer-based, emotionally perceptive math tutoring software that can help girls improve their standardized test scores. It has improved scores by 10 percent and helps girls stay interested in science.
SXSW 2010 for Marketers & Online Strategists Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:09AMNavigating SXSW is overwhelming to say the least! To help you out ReadWriteWeb has been breaking the events, panels and parties down into vertical reviews. This post provides what we think are some of the best for marketers and online strategists. We'd also love to hear your recommendations in the comments. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sxsw_2010_for ...
Idera Pharmaceuticals announces net income of $3.9M for fourth-quarter 2009 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:56AMIdera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009.
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) To Launch New Brain Research Effort With Acquisition Of Elekta MEG ... Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:26AMResearchers at MIT are eagerly anticipating the summer delivery of Elekta Neuromag®, a system that uses magnetoencephalography or MEG to explore brain function. MEG can detect the very weak magnetic fields arising from electrical activity in the brain, and allows researchers to monitor the timing of brain activity with millisecond precision. MIT researchers will use MEG to study normal cognition ...
Report: Nevada pre-kindergarten teachers among best trained in U.S. Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:14AMNevada is among the states that require the most education and training for pre-kindergarten teachers, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Institute.
Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:26PM( University of California - San Francisco ) Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.
Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:14PMDoctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.
Movement education aims to combat childhood obesity and increase brain function in students Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 8:57AMNEWPORT NEWS — For Martha Swirzinski, a movement education teacher, it's all about keeping children moving in their classrooms.
DNA Identification Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:16AMIn criminal cases, there have been challenges on sufficiency grounds and concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence as the sole or primary proof of guilt. Uncorroborated DNA matching might not be enough to satisfy the burden of establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Screen syndrome Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4:11PMThe hero with a debilitating condition may not be entirely convincing. But the city welcomes him in any case Rizvan Khan is afraid of new people and new places. He can’t stand loud noises or the colour yellow. He does his tasks by the clock and does not understand most of what people say or do.
Music is good for you at any age Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 2:25PM"Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years," neurologist Gottfried Schlaug says. ( Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times )
Study sheds light on memory and learning Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 4:04AMIn a new study, researchers have delved into the question-Are we over estimating remembering and underestimating learning?
Psychiatric Presentations of Autoimmune Encephalopathies Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 4:31PMWhile a biological basis for numerous psychiatric illnesses has become increasingly appreciated, few mechanistic hypotheses have gripped psychiatric researchers as strongly as an autoimmune basis for behavioral abnormalities.
Recent research on memory/learning Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 3:42PM( Williams College ) Are we over estimating remembering and underestimating learning? Current research by Nate Kornell and Robert A. Bjork address this question and was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Teaching self-control skills to children reduces classroom problems Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 2:20PMChildren taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a new study.
Children learn while playing at preschool Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:22PMIn one corner of the Adairville School preschool room, three little girls were playing house, pretending to prepare a meal and take care of a baby. At a table in the center of the room, a boy worke...
Teaching self-control skills to children reduces classroom problems Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:09AMChildren taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
Is Baby Einstein making your baby an Einstein? Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:41AMNEW YORK, March 5 — Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a US study that focused on one product, the Baby Wordsworth from the Walt Disney Company’s Baby Einstein series. While The Baby Einstein Co does not make educational claims, it notes on its web page that the Baby Wordsworth DVD is a “playful introduction to words and sign ...
Link between musical, academic skills yet to be understood Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 7:04AMPlaying an instrument seems to make learning math and foreign languages easier, but researchers aren't sure why. Taylor Bredberg is an ardent fan of the indie band Grizzly Bear and the show "Lost," is an amateur filmmaker and a doodler of figures that bring to mind Tim Burton's kinetic grotesques.
Child development — reaching milestones, birth to 5 years Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:36AMThe early years of a child’s life are critical for cognitive, social and emotional development. Carefully monitoring whether children ages birth to 5 years meet developmental milestones is a way parents can notice and address problems.
E. OREGON: 2 moms honored for helping disabled Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:51PMThis year’s Developmentally Disabled Champion Awards, a statewide honor, went to two Umatilla
Moonshoot Adds Professor Robert Calfee as Education Officer, Continues Building Talent Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:30PMDistinguished Stanford University and University of California, Riverside Professor joins startup teaching English to children globally (PRWeb Mar 3, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3673454.htm
Dr. Douglas Fields: New Suspect In Gulf War Syndrome Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 1:30PMThe Veterans Affairs Department announced that it will re-examine the disability claims of thousands of Persian Gulf War veterans suffering from the mysterious Gulf War illnesses decades after the war ended
Board talks about budget Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:47AMEarly Childhood Coordinator Judy Morel led a long evening of presentations last week for the School Committee with an introduction of the Bedford High School Integrated Preschool Program. Describing it as an inclusive educational environment where children of varying abilities are educated alongside their typically developing peers and high school students are provided with “live specimens ...
Apps for Army Launches - The Hybrid Enterprise? Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:35AMThe Army launches Apps for Army. Contest or harbinger of the hybrid enterprise that combines planning and emergence under one roof? Apps for Army looks to uncork the Army's cognitive surplus and let soldiers start solving their own problems in code without the personal risk of going off reservation to do it.
Learning Helps Keep Brain Healthy Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9:16AMStudy suggests mental activity could stave off age-related cognitive and memory declineUC Irvine neurobiologists are providing the first visual evidence that learning promotes brain health — and, therefore, that mental stimulation could limit the debilitating effects of aging on memory and the mind.Using a novel visualization technique they devised to study memory, a research team led by Lulu ...
A Day in the Life Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 8:36AMWhat better way to spend your day than by playing with children while simultaneously helping them develop physically and mentally?
DYRK1A Gene May Be One Of Most Influential Factors In Down's Syndrome Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 8:32AMPersons with Down's syndrome usually have great problems with memory; this being precisely one of the characteristics which differentiates them from other people. Particularly notable is the poor capacity they have for retaining information received orally, but also that concerning visual-spatial memory should be taken into account. This topic has hardly been dealt with to date and Mr Azkona ...
Moonshoot Adds Professor Robert Calfee as Education Officer, Continues Building Talent Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 8:00AMDistinguished Stanford University and University of California, Riverside Professor joins startup teaching English to children globally
Infants Do Not Appear To Learn Words From Educational DVDs Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 8:23PMAmong 12- to 24-month old children who view educational baby videos, there does not appear to be evidence that overall general language learning improves or that words featured in the programming are learned, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Only on NBC 6: Is Your Child's Development at Risk? Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 7:15PMStructured enviroments are missing in many homes, leading to a delay in early childhood development for some.
CCHS takes first place at science fair Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 6:26PMFertilizer as an explosive, worms controlling paper recycling, a comparison between the lawn and wild dandelions and bentho-macroinvertebrates in the Arkansas River and Grape Creek influences — these were a few of the projects by Cañon City High School students that took first place Thursday at the Southern Colorado Science Fair in Pueblo.
New technique offers a more detailed view of brain activity Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 5:21PM(PhysOrg.com) -- For neuroscientists, one of the best ways to study brain activity is with a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which reveals blood flow in the brain.
Gene may be among most influential factors in Down syndrome Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:32PMResearch undertaken in recent years on Down syndrome has focused on the DYRK1A gene. The super-expression of this gene affects transmission in the neurons, according to a new study.
Language Studies with Bonobos is Tied to Rearing Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:09PMDes Moines, Iowa -- You may have more in common with Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota, three language-competent bonobos living at Great Ape Trust, than you thought.
Samoan PM opens Tsunami Trauma Recovery Training Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:39PMThe NZ Trauma Recovery Team arrived in Apia this week to train nearly 40 counsellors and workers in Samoa following the tsunami that hit the Southern Coast of Samoa on 29 September 2009.
Infants do not appear to learn words from educational DVDs Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:36PMAmong 12- to 24-month old children who view educational baby videos, there does not appear to be evidence that overall general language learning improves or that words featured in the programming are learned, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Infants do not appear to learn words from educational DVDs Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:34PM( JAMA and Archives Journals ) Among 12- to 24-month old children who view educational baby videos, there does not appear to be evidence that overall general language learning improves or that words featured in the programming are learned, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives ...
Toddlers Do Not Learn Words from Baby Videos Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:16PMRIVERSIDE, Calif. – Videos intended to help toddlers develop language skills do not help very young children learn new words, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found.
Special ed students in Woodland build career skills Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:39AMFinding a job in this market is no easy feat, but the Special Education students at Woodland and Pioneer high schools are gaining crucial career skills that will help ease the way into adulthood.Juniors Mario Duran and Steve Mazariegos, and senior Nicole Lacaro, walk from Pioneer High School to
Playing along with the Mozart effect Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 2:18AMIf you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener. Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural experience. At the other end of life, musical memories can be imprinted on the brain so indelibly that they can be ...
Raising multilingual children Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 2:09AMWe live in a multilingual world. It is not uncommon to walk down the street in any U.S. city and hear several different languages being spoken.
Aging Well: Help available for sleep struggles Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 1:25AMIt’s easy to take sleep for granted — that is, until zzzzz’s are replaced with restlessness, tossing and turning and daytime exhaustion. People of all ages experience insomnia, snoring, restless leg syndrome and other sleep problems, but these disorders tend to be more prevalent among older adults.
The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 7:26PMScientists used to think teenage brains are just like those of adults — with fewer miles on them. But they're not. Teens' brains are developmentally different. One neurologist mother decided to get to the roots of her son's maddening behavior.
Novel MRI Sensor Provides Molecular View of the Brain Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 12:43PMMIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures.