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·February 19, 2018·4 min read

Newborn Babies Who Suffered Stroke Regain Language Function in Opposite Side of Brain

According to researchers, following a perinatal stroke that damages the language area in the left hemisphere, the brain remaps to use the right hemisphere for language.

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·January 18, 2018·6 min read

How Babies’ Brains Process Touch Builds Foundations for Learning

University of Washington researchers report activity in the somatosensory cortex for both felt and observed touch demonstrates 7 month old babies can make a basic connection between self and others.

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·December 20, 2017·2 min read

Songbirds May Hold the Secret to How Babies Learn to Speak

Zebra finches may hold the key to understanding how babies learn to talk, researchers say.

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·December 8, 2017·4 min read

Brain Network That Helps Babies Learn to Walk Identified

Researchers have identified a brain network that is involved in helping an infant learn to walk. Additionally, disruptions in the network may predict future risk of a child being diagnosed with ASD.

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·November 30, 2017·5 min read

Behavior Not Indicative of Pain in Stressed Babies

A new study reveals newborns who are stressed by their environment have a greater neural pain response following a routine skin lance than babies who are not stressed. However, the neural response is not matched by their physical reaction to pain.

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·November 29, 2017·5 min read

Eye Contact With Your Baby Helps Synchronize Brainwaves

University of Cambridge researchers report making eye contact with a baby causes brainwave synchronization in both the child and person they are looking at. Researchers believe this synchronization can help boost communication and learning skills.

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·November 28, 2017·4 min read

Antibiotics Administered During Labor Delay Healthy Gut Bacteria in Babies

A new study reveals antibiotics given to pregnant women with Group B Streptococcus during labor can affect a baby's development of gut bacteria.

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·November 27, 2017·4 min read

Holding Infants, Or Not, Can Leave Traces on Their Genes

Children who experienced higher levels of distress and less physical contact had a lower epigenetic age than those who were picked up and held more frequently, researchers report. Lower epigenetic age, researchers note, may impede a child's ability to thrive.

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·November 24, 2017·6 min read

How Badly Do You Want Something? Babies Can Tell

MIT researchers reveal infants before the age of one are able to determine how much someone values a goal by observing how hard someone works to achieve it.

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·November 3, 2017·4 min read

Probability Calculations – Even Babies Can Master Them

Researchers discover children as young as 6 months old can have a sense of probability.

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·November 1, 2017·5 min read

Babies Can Use Context to Look For Things

At 6 months of age, babies are capable of memory guided attention, a new study reveals. Young infants are able to learn and remember contextual visual cues to find objects of interest, researchers report. The findings shed new light on both typical and atypical brain development.