Hugs are essential for healthy brain development. The Weizmann Institute of Science has shared new findings that indicate that the hormone oxytocin – the love and cuddle hormone – is also essential for embryonic brain development. More specifically, oxytocin plays a role in blood vessel formation in the pituitary gland, which controls several physiological processes […]
Yesterday, I was asked to choose between speaking about learning disabilities or speaking about anxiety in children. The more I thought about it, the more I realized they are one and the same for many of the children with whom I work. The innate desire and ability to learn starts from the moment we are
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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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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
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
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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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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