Posts Tagged ‘kids’
Study: Overprotective Parents Slow Children’s Brain Growth and Increase Mental Illness
No child likes to be oppressed by domineering parents, and now we have scientific evidence that this “iron fist” style of parenting has damaging effects on a child’s brain development and psychological health. Scientist Nosuke Narita of Gunma University, Japan and a team of researchers scanned the brains of 50 people between the ages of…
Read MoreStudy: New Drug Allows Adults to Learn As Quickly As Kids Do
You’re only as young as you think you are. But what if you could re-train your brain to absorb information as easily as a child can? That’s exactly what scientists testing the FDA-approved drug called valproate investigated in study of adults who had little or no musical training yet demonstrated some degree of absolute pitch,…
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