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Exercise Is Good for The Body And Makes The Brain Function Better. | |
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Dr. John Ratey, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School has done extensive, long-term research about how regular physical activity is not only good for your body, but makes your brain function better - and might combat anxiety and depression. Dr. Ratey has discovered that exercise releases a special brain-nourishing protein - something he calls "Miracle-Gro for the brain."
The research means that exercise has added benefits for adults, but also for children and learning at school. Increasing physical activity before and during school can help kids improve their grades, lower their anxiety levels and keep them healthy all at the same time.
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Better Diagnosis Leads To Better Treatment
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Dyslexia Independent Of IQ, Study Says | |
Brain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence - and that more children could benefit from support in school.
 About 5 to 10 percent of American children are diagnosed as dyslexic. Historically, the label has been assigned to kids who are bright, even verbally articulate, but who struggle with reading - in short, whose high IQs mismatch their low reading scores. On the other hand, reading troubles in children with low IQs have traditionally been considered a byproduct of their general cognitive limitations, not a reading disorder in particular.
Now, a new brain-imaging study challenges this understanding of dyslexia. "We found that children who are poor readers have the same brain difficulty in processing the sounds of language whether they have a high or low IQ," says John D. E. Gabrieli, MIT's Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, who performed the study with Fumiko Hoeft and colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine; Charles Hulme at York University in the U.K.; and Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, also at MIT. "Reading difficulty is independent of other cognitive abilities."
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Source: Emily Finn, MIT News Office |
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