Children who attend school close to busy roads and traffic are more likely to experience deficits in working memory and attention, a new study reports.
Study reports medications for ADHD have little detectable impact on how much a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learns in the classroom. However, the medications helped children retain attention, improve classroom behavior, and improve seat-time work.
Socioemotional behavior at age eight predicted health behaviors during midlife both directly and indirectly through education.
The combination of physical activity and social interactions children experience during recess helps reduce stress and improve focus back in the classroom.
Study reports play-based learning may positively impact a young child's acquisition of math skills compared to direct teaching.
Older adults with an academic background showed lower increases of signs of brain degeneration than those who were less educated, a new study reports.
Children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds with stronger connectivity between the lateral frontoparietal network and default mode network performed better in educational tests than those with weaker connectivity. The reverse was true for children from more privileged backgrounds.
Study reveals children who were given nutritionally modified formula as infants performed no better on educational tests of math and English than those who received standard formula.
Students who consistently sleep the optimal eight hours per night perform better on tests and report higher personal satisfaction than their peers who have more disrupted sleep patterns.
Findings reveal the relationships between socioeconomic status, brain size, and cognition are established early in life.
Genetic nurture, the concept that the parent's genes indirectly influence their children by shaping the environment they provide for them, is almost equally important in a child's educational achievement as direct genetic inheritance.
College students with higher levels of anxiety and depression were more likely to have experienced childhood adversity than their peers, researchers found.
