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05 Oct 2024

Unlocking Academic Potential: 9 Ways Chess Enhances Cognitive Skills

Discover how playing chess can boost cognitive abilities and academic performance. Learn 9 key ways chess enhances skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and memory.

27 Apr 2022

Parental type 1 diabetes may affect children's cognitive development: Study

Children of mothers and fathers with type 1 diabetes had mean scores of 54.2 and 54.4 respectively, compared with mean scores of 56.4 in children from the background population.

02 Jun 2017

Want to boost your children's brain? Start reading books to them regularly!

A new study has found that engaging with kids while reading books to them gives their brain a cognitive boost.

Cognitive health

11 Apr 2017

Interpersonal abuse in early life may affect cognitive skills

For the study, the team compared two groups of young: One had a history of early life abuse, while the other did not.

Children health

29 Mar 2017

Exposing children to lead may impact cognitive development: Researchers

The findings, published by JAMA, showed that children with more than 10 micrograms of lead per decilitre of blood at age 11 had 4.25 points lower intelligence quotients (IQ) at age 38.

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15 Jan 2017

Concussions may accelerate Alzheimer's disease: Study

Of particular note was that these brain abnormalities were found in a relatively young group, with the average age being 32 years old.

23 Oct 2015

The sooner babies get cochlear implants, the better

Infants with profound hearing loss, who received cochlear implants to improve their hearing, soon babbled as often as their hearing peers, allowing them to catch up developmentally.

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