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UrduBoth ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions for ADHD medication have increased significantly over the past two decades, except in children under five, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Tag: RESEARCH ON CHILDREN
Can children map read at the age of four?
Children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of four – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today reveals that they become able to use a scale model to find things in the real world.
Infants outperform AI in “commonsense psychology”
Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people’s actions, finds a new study by a team of psychology and data science researchers. Its results, which highlight fundamental differences between cognition and computation, point to shortcomings in today’s technologies and where improvements are needed for AI to more fully replicate human behavior.
Ethiopian schools study suggests COVID has “ruptured” social skills of the world’s poorest children
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children, as well as their academic progress, new evidence shows.
Lab grown ‘mini eyes’ unlock understanding of blindness in rare genetic condition
Researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have grown ‘mini eyes’, which make it possible to study and better understand the development of blindness in a rare genetic disease called Usher syndrome for the first time.