Childhood stimulation key to brain development, study finds

Alok Jha, science correspondent The Guardian, Sunday 14 October 2012 Twenty-year research project shows that most critical aspect of cortex development in late teens was stimulation aged four An early childhood surrounded by books and educational toys will leave positive fingerprints on a person's brain well into their late teens, a two-decade-long research study has shown. Scientists...

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Autism Risk Linked To Space Between First And Second Pregnancy

Written by Christian Nordqvist A second child is three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism if they are born within twelve months of their siblings, compared to those born three or more years apart, researchers from the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences at Columbia University, New York revealed in the journal Pediatrics. The investigators gathered information on 660,000 second children born in California between 1992 to 2002. Sociologist Peter Bearman, and team set out to find out whether there might be a link between the...

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