More Pediatric Brain & Nerve News

• Cooling May Reduce Brain Lesions in Newborns

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who are deprived of oxygen at birth often go ...

• Psychiatric Meds for Infants Linked to Later Behavior Problems

  Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that infant rats given commonly prescribed drugs to ...

• Exercise in Adolescence May Cut Risk of Deadly Brain Tumor

  Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form ...

• Not All Kids With Head Injuries Need Brain Scans

  Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Guidelines to identify children with a very low risk of ...

• As Sleep Improves, Grades Seem to Go Up

  June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Better quality sleep and more efficient sleep just might lead ...

• Stranger's Cell Phone Ring May Thwart Your Thinking

  June 4 (HealthDay News) -- As if folks needed another reason to be annoyed at ...

• Tourette Syndrome Diagnosed in 3 in Every 1,000 Kids

  June 4 (HealthDay News) -- In the first estimate of its kind, U.S. health officials ...

• Babies Come Packed With Natural Knowledge

  May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Infants as young as 5 months old can distinguish between ...

• Scorpion Anti-Venom Speeds Children's Recovery

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- An anti-venom medication used in Mexico but not approved for ...

• Writing Disorder May Be Common Among Kids

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Though dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder are better known, another learning ...

• Binge Drinking May Damage Teens' Brains

  April 22 (HealthDay News) -- When teens go on a binge drinking episode, they may ...

• Resuscitated Newborns at Risk for Lower IQs

  April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Newborns who were not breathing at birth and had to ...

• Almost 1 in 10 Young Video Game Users 'Addicted'

  April 20 (HealthDay News) -- A sizable number of young video game players -- fully ...

• Fetal Exposure to Methamphetamine May Harm Child's Brain

  April 15 (HealthDay News) -- In what researchers are calling the first study of its ...

• Screening Lowers Stroke Risk for Sickle Cell Kids

  April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A specialized ultrasound scan is helping more children with sickle ...

• TV Time May Not Be Benign

  April 3 (HealthDay News) -- Parking the kids in front of the TV might seem ...

• Babies Born Only 2 to 3 Weeks Early May Face Development Delays

  March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Even babies born near their due date have an increased ...

• Anesthesia in Youngest Kids May be Linked to Learning Disabilities

  March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Children who have had anesthesia two or more times by ...

• Late-Life Fatherhood May Lower Child's Intelligence

  March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Men who put off becoming dads till later in life ...