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Post-Trauma Vision Syndrome: Part I
Vision and Brain Injury By William V. Padula, OD and Stephanie Argyris, OD A person who has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or cerebral vascular accident (CVA) may often experience difficulties with balance, spatial orientation, coordination, cognitive function, and speech. In most cases, a referral for visual consultation only occurs if there’s an
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Tummy Time
Why Babies Need More of It Than They’re Getting By Brian Mossop In the early 1940s, Dr. Harold Abramson, a New York pediatrician, pored over heartrending reports of babies who accidentally suffocated while they slept. As he reviewed case after case, he noticed that a vast majority of the deaths occurred when babies
Time for Tummies
Jane SamuelAttachment Trauma Network Summary: In our journey to heal our youngest daughter from her developmental delays, we returned to the true basics – crawling, creeping, rocking, and touch. In the world of therapy it is called neurodevelopmental movement, but in our house it is just called tummies and knees. Our youngest, “E”, spent her
Sensory Experience Alters The Development Of Brain Areas That Control Movement
WASHINGTON, D.C. New animal research shows that sensory deprivation not only influences the sensory brain areas, but surprisingly also stifles the development and organization of areas involved in the control of voluntary movement. And the effects are particularly drastic in early life. “The research suggests that sensory feedback to the brain’s motor cortex
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Relationship Between Eye Condition and ADHD
Source Newsroom: University of California, San Diego UCSD SHILEY OPHTHALMOLOGISTS DISCOVER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EYE CONDITION AND ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER UCSD Shiley Eye Center ophthalmologists and researchers have uncovered a relationship between an eye disease characterized by an inability to focus on a target and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). “We showed
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Psychological Trauma May Leave Visible Trace in a Child’s Brain
A new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology found that children with symptoms of post-traumatic stress had poor function of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that stores and retrieves memories. This is the first study to use functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to look at the function of the hippocampus
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Prolonged Institutional Rearing is Associated with Atypically Large Amygdala Volume and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
© 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Developmental Science Volume 13, Issue 1, pages 46–61, January 2010 Abstract Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds of a species-typical caregiving environment. The long-term effects
Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests
Source: University of Notre Dame Summary: Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research. “Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago,” says Darcia Narvaez, Notre Dame professor of psychology who specializes in
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