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Informing the Future of Childhood Development Through Neuroscience
Reading training can change the dyslexic brain
May 19, 2013
Dyslexia, being a learning disability affecting 5% to 10% of the population - especially impairing one’s ability to read and spell, can hinder a child’s ability to perform well academically1. In only 8-weeks of training, children (7 to 11 years of age) diagnosed with dyslexia showed improvements in reading skills alongside significant increases in brain volume. A study by Anthony J. Krafnick and colleagues2 from Georgetown University discovered these relevant findings, providing insight into a potential way to offset the deficits associated with dyslexia with changes at the brain level. Krafnick and colleagues used a training program, known as Seeing Stars3, specifically designed to help the children incorporate an … Read More...
The Parenting Instinct: It’s Wired in the Brain
April 29, 2013
Can a parent's instinct be measured? Is it something you learn or something that's 'wired in'? With only a few days until the Brain Power Conference we'll be spending a lot of time learning about how a child's brain develops - and show that a parent's interactions with a child have a major impact on cognitive development. But what about the parent's brain? Researchers from The National Institute of Health along with scientists from Germany, Japan and, Italy have shown that the 'parenting instinct' is actually a specific response wired into our brains. Science daily reports on a study involving adults, who currently have no children of their own, who had FMRIs (brain scans) while being shown pictures of infants, adult humans and, … Read More...
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