Senior briefs
Baltimore Sun
Information in the booklet focuses on groups for caregiving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke, cardiac and pulmonary problems, Parkinson's, and bowel and urinary diversions.

'Special' children need 'special' care
Bangladesh News 24 hours
Give them time, talk to them, talk with their parents and teach the parents how to handle these children," member of the parliament AN Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud made the call while inaugurating a doctors' training programme on autism, in the capital's …

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Study: Females More Likely To Suffer Concussions in High School Sports
KRIS Corpus Christi News
"A brain injury is not like a broken bone. It's soft like a toothpaste or a jello consistency. So once you start having (concussions), you can have seizures, weakness, numbness, memory problems. At school you see children with active injuries …
New insurance provides concussion testing for student-athletesSacramento Bee

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Teacher Devoted to Helping People With Autism
Hicksville Illustrated News
Statistics show that approximately one in 110 American children is on the autism spectrum – a 600 percent increase in prevalence over the past two decades. When Hicksville High School special education teacher Margot Horn began her career over 31 years …

Autism: Brainwaves 'show risk from age of six months'
BBC News
Older children with autism can show a lack of eye contact, so the babies were shown pictures of people's faces that switched between looking at or away from the baby. Sensors attached to the scalp looked for differences in brain activity.
Autism Can Be Detected At an Early Stage, Say ResearchersTopNews Arab Emirates

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Police Investigate High School Coach's Handling of Player Concussions
Forbes
25] from the county's Children and Youth Services Department, the police chief said [Jan. 26]. Police Chief Harry Fruecht said his department launched an investigation [Jan. 25] after receiving a complaint from CYS that “an alleged perpetrator is …
Police probe Pa. coach's handling of concussionsThe Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Peters cops open investigation of high school football programPittsburgh Post Gazette

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Options for camps offer 'nice menu' for summer
Cleveland Jewish News
Besides sports and traditional camps, specialty camps include acting, arts and crafts, Boys and Girl Scouts, culinary arts, rock climbing, leadership, pottery, and more, along with camps for children with special needs. For teens, counselor-in-training …

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Lead may harm children at lower levels than thought
Cincinnati.com
But lower levels, especially in children under 6, can harm the brain, reduce IQ and cause other learning, attention and behavioral problems, without any obvious symptoms. Lead exposure can harm young children and babies even before they are born.

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Brain shock treatment for academic gain: the potential dangers
Telegraph.co.uk
Inadequately trained clinicians might misidentify suitable sites for stimulation — an important issue as different cognitive abilities may be subserved by different brain areas at different stages across the lifespan. They might also fail to ensure …
The ethics of brain boostingPhysOrg.com

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Online Brain-Training Program for Treatment of Learning Problems Proves Successful
PR Web (press release)
Brain Potential Institutes' one-on-one online brain training with a specialist has successfully helped children, teens and adults with reading problems, focusing and memory deficiencies, and an inability to complete tasks. Brain training has earned the …

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