Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Bedwetting: Difficulty rousing from sleep
Children who wet the bed may be having difficulty waking up to use the toilet when the bladder is full.
Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Causes of Bedwetting: Overproduction of Urine
Some children may have low levels of a naturally occurring substance called vasopressin, which the brain normally produces during the night.
Children's health
13 Feb 2014
Bedwetting: Overactive or twitchy bladder
Some children have an overactive bladder and can only hold small amounts of urine. In this case the child's bladder muscles may spontaneously contract during…
Children's health
12 Feb 2014
Slowing and preventing preterm labour
A Florida State University researcher is tackling a new and inventive way to slow down and perhaps prevent preterm labour.
Children's health
30 Jan 2014
Permanent Changes In Brain Genes May Not Be So Permanent After All
In normal development, all cells turn off genes they don’t need, often by attaching a chemical methyl group to the DNA, a process called methylation.…
Gastro
19 Jan 2014
New study reveals links between alcoholic liver disease and the circadian clock
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine have revealed a putative role for the circadian clock in the liver in the development of alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis, or fatty liver disease. Hepatic steatosis is the abnormal accumulation of fats in the cells of the…
Children's health
20 Dec 2013
Sport’s concussion has long term impact on the brain
In an Australian first, Deakin University research has found that sports concussions do have a long term, negative, impact on the brain. Dr Alan Pearce, a neuroscientist with Deakin University’s School of Psychology, has investigated the long-term impact sports concussion had on the brain function of 40 retired Australian rules…
Children's health
09 Nov 2013
Brain scans may aid in diagnosis of autism
Joint research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychology and Auburn University indicates that brain scans show signs of autism that could eventually support behaviour-based diagnosis of autism and effective early intervention therapies. The findings appear online today in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience as part of a…
Children's health
25 Oct 2013
Viral infection disrupts neural development in offspring, increasing risk of autism
Activating a mother’s immune system during her pregnancy disrupts the development of neural cells in the brain of her offspring and damages the cells’ ability to transmit signals and communicate with one another, researchers with the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Neurology have found. They said the…
