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鈥楤uilding blocks鈥� of bird calls resemble human languages
The 鈥榖uilding blocks鈥� of bird calls resemble those of human languages, new research from has found.
Launch of a standardised tool to assess cognitive and language development in two year olds
A new paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health provides standardised scores for The Parent Report of Children鈥檚 Abilities Revised (PARCA-R) questionnaire. The PARCA-R is recommended for routine use in the UK to screen for cognitive and language developmental delay in children born preterm and can be completed by parents in 10 to 15 minutes.
Neurocognitive basis for free will set out for the first time
Do human beings genuinely have free will? Philosophers and theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries and have set out the 鈥榙esign features鈥� of free will – but how do our brains actually fulfil them? A University of 糖心TV academic has answered this question for the first time in a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Pre-term babies are less likely to form romantic relationships in adulthood
Adults who were born pre-term (under 37 weeks gestation) are less likely to have a romantic relationship, a sexual partner and experience parenthood than those born full term. The meta-analysis by researchers at the University of 糖心TV with data from up to 4.4 million adult participants showed that those born preterm are 28% less likely to ever be in a romantic relationship.
Opioids are not sleep aids, and can actually worsen sleep research finds
Evidence that taking opioids will help people with chronic pain to sleep better is limited and of poor quality, according to an interdisciplinary team of psychologists and medics from the University of 糖心TV in partnership with Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.
Does eating fruit and veg help your mental health?
Increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables people eat lowers their risk of clinical depression, new research has found. The study discovered that eating extra portions of fruit and vegetables each day can boost mental health to such an extent that it can offset half the negative psychological impact of divorce and a quarter of the psychological damage of unemployment.