AUTISM and ADHD are neurodevelopmental conditions that affect people’s communication, attention and behaviour. But scientists ...

Formerly known as "manic depression," bipolar disorder affects millions of people around the world. The illness is characterized by extreme mood swings that can cause a cycle of mania and depression ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies - one focused on ...

An increasing amount of attention is being paid to dyslexia and autism. These neurodevelopmental disorders affect a large number of children, to the point where they have become household names for ...

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As a psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders and body image distress, I often hear from clients: “I don’t know why I do this. I’m not stupid. I know it’s not healthy. I just can’t stop.” They ...

A research team at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg at Heidelberg University has, for the first time, identified a potential therapeutic approach for the rare FOXP1 syndrome, a congenital developmental ...

In a noisy school cafeteria, two children speak over the conversations and clanging utensils happening around them. While many observers may see the children talking and think their ears are doing all ...

This post was co-authored with Malak Elmessiry, Jessica Chuang, and Anayeli Huerta. According to UNESCO, more than half of the world population is bilingual or multilingual. At some point in life, ...

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.

Purpose: The aim of our study was to clarify DLD characteristics specific to boys and girls and monolingual and multilingual children, including the detection of possible bias in observations made by ...