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“Anxiety and Irritability Together Are Harder Than Either One Alone. Here's Why”

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Radon Gas in Homes May Affect How Children's Brains Develop
A study of 118 children found connections between radon levels in their homes and changes in brain activity patterns tied to attention.
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How Gait Training May Change Brain Activity in People
A study of 29 people with cerebral palsy found that a gait training program incorporating visuomotor tasks was associated with changes in occipital cortical activity and improvements in walking speed
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How Children Learn to Listen: Boys Town Researchers Study
A new study found that children develop awareness of some speech cues as they get older, and that current models for predicting speech understanding in kids may need to be updated
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How Does the Brain Get Better at Solving New Problems?
The largest study of its kind found that specific brain regions mediate age-related improvements in fluid reasoning in children and adolescents ages 8 to 15
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Research Shows Hearing Aids Reduce Listening Effort
A Boys Town study of 33 school-age children found that hearing aids lowered the cognitive effort of listening to speech in noisy environments. This finding shows that the benefits of wearing hearing aids extend beyond improved access to sound.
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The Brain Skill That Predicts School and Life Success
Boys Town researchers found that cognitive flexibility in kindergarten and first grade directly forecasts behavioral outcomes in second grade and beyond
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Want Your Child to Learn Better? Get Them Moving.
Boys Town researchers found that physical activity integrated into learning sessions significantly improves word retention in children
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Why Anxiety and Irritability Are Tougher Together
Boys Town researchers found that when anxiety and irritability co-occur in young people, they are associated with distinct patterns of brain activity that may help inform future treatment approaches.
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