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Brain Activity in Sleep May Impact Emotional Disturbances in Children With ADHD

July 8, 2013

12 July 2013, ADHD, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] Sleep consolidates emotional memories in healthy children but not in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to research published May 29 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Alexander Prehn-Kristensen and colleagues from University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. The…...

July 8, 2013

[Source: The New Yorker] Few things are harder to study than human language. The brains of living humans can only be studied indirectly, and language, unlike vision, has no analogue in the animal world. Vision scientists can study sight in monkeys using…...

July 8, 2013

[Source: Medical News Today] Neuralstem, Inc. announced that a paper published today in the journal, STEM CELL RESEARCH AND THERAPY, showed that rats transplanted with its spinal cord-derived human neural stem cells, NSI-566, three days after a spinal cord injury at L3…...

July 4, 2013

5 July 2013, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: We just got the sweetest photo that we had to share with everyone! Patrick Moon is a compassionate and energetic Physical Therapist who has been working for PediaStaff at one of our school district in New Mexico for the past…...

July 3, 2013

News, Newsletter, OT, Physical Education, PT

[Source: Science Daily] Levels of physical inactivity and obesity are very high in children, with fewer than 50% of primary school-aged boys and fewer than 28% of girls meeting the minimum levels of physical activity required to maintain health. Exergaming, using active…...

July 3, 2013

5 July 2013, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] Nearly 20% of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number has been increasing for over a decade, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…...

July 3, 2013

5 July 2013, ADHD, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Long-term treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with certain stimulant medications may alter the density of the dopamine transporter, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Gene-Jack Wang and colleagues from Brookhaven National Laboratory…...

July 3, 2013

5 July 2013, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children — one that does not appear to exist in children in Asia. In the United States, girls had higher…...

July 3, 2013

5 July 2013, App, Language, Newsletter, Storytelling, Tip or Resource

[Source: The Speech2Me blog] Like most SLP’s out there, I have embraced using my iPad and educational apps both at home with my six year old and at work with several middle school clients. My favorite one for both age groups is,…...

July 2, 2013

5 July 2013, Article, Literacy, Newsletter

[Source: SmartBlog on Education] by Fred Ende I’m not a big fan of Seek & Finds. You know, the simple puzzles where you look at a word bank and then circle the word in a jumble of random letters and whatnot.…...