Swine Influenza and You Swine Flu website last updated April 29, 2009, 10:55 PM ET What is swine flu? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen.

ADHD, Conduct Disorder and Smoking Most Strongly Related to Dropping out of High School ScienceDaily (July 27, 2010) Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — the most common childhood psychiatric condition in the United States — are less likely to finish high school on time than students with other mental-health disorders that often are considered more

How Terror Hijacks the Brain April 16, 2013 |By Maia Szalavitz Getty Images Fear short circuits the brain, especially when it hits close to home, experts say— making coping with events like the bombings at the Boston Marathon especially tricky. “When people are terrorized, the smartest parts of our brain tend to shut down,” says

LI docs react to study linking ADD with pesticides May 17, 2010 by TOM INCANTALUPO / tom.incantalupo@newsday.com Another study linking pesticides to attention deficit disorder probably won’t change the way the condition is treated, local doctors say, but it does suggest that more study is needed into environmental causes of the condition that is thought

Multiple Sclerosis Often Starts in Brain’s Outer Layers ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2011) — Multiple sclerosis (MS) may progress from the outermost layers of the brain to its deep parts, and isn’t always an “inside-out” process as previously thought, reported a new collaborative study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic. The traditional

Age-related effects in MS may be reversible By JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER 10/01/2012 Proof-of-principle study provides hope for stimulating remyelination. BOSTON – Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge have found that the age-related impairment of the body’s ability to replace protective myelin sheaths, which normally surround nerve fibers and allow

Early Brain Responses to Words Predict Developmental Outcomes in Children With Autism May 29, 2013 — The pattern of brain responses to words in 2-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder predicted the youngsters’ linguistic, cognitive and adaptive skills at ages 4 and 6, according to a new study. The findings, to be published May 29

Babies Born Just a Few Weeks Too Soon at Greater Risk of Cerebral Palsy and Other Developmental Delays WHITE PLAINS, NY, DEC. 11, 2008- Babies born just a few weeks prematurely are more than three times as likely to have cerebral palsy than full-term infants- adding to the mounting evidence that the last few weeks

Janine K. Cataldo, Judith J. Prochaska, Stanton A. Glantz Cigarette Smoking is a Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease: An Analysis Controlling for Tobacco Industry Affiliation Abstract: To examine the relationship between smoking and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) after controlling for study design, quality, secular trend, and tobacco industry affiliation of the authors, electronic databases were searched;

Shorter spacing between births may raise risk of autism By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH 23/01/2011 Health Scan: Health Ministry works to make animal testing more humane; amniocentesis could be replaced by blood tests. People who tend to raise large families won’t be pleased to hear about the latest retrospective study published in the journal Pediatrics, which found

Parents Key to Preventing Alcohol, Marijuana Use by Kids ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2012) — New research from North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University and the Pennsylvania State University finds that parental involvement is more important than the school environment when it comes to preventing or limiting alcohol and marijuana use by children. “Parents play

Forest Grove School District v. T.A. Supreme Court Case: Implications for School Psychology Practice Shauna G. Dixon Sgd291@mail.harvard.edu, Eleazar C. Eusebio, William J. Turton, Peter W. D. Wright, James B. Hale Abstract The 2009 Forest Grove School District v. T.A. United States Supreme Court case could have significant implications for school psychology practice. The Court