Animals may feel like us, but the way we think is different Children universally believe animals experience emotions and feelings but are reluctant to say they have human-like thoughts, which can influence how we treat other species throughout life, according to a new study. Forrest Fellow Dr. Karri Neldner, from The University of Western Australia's School of Psychological Science, was lead author of the study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.
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Research explores effect of parental depression symptoms on children's reward processing In newly published research, Binghamton University doctoral student Elana Israel, MS '22, explores which depressive symptoms largely affect children's neural responses to feedback.
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CDC panel may change longtime rule on hepatitis B shots for newborns A CDC advisory group is meeting today and preparing to vote on whether newborns should still get a hepatitis B vaccine within the first 24 hours of life, a significant change from guidance that has been in place since the early 1990s.
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Rapid, low-cost tests can help prevent child deaths from contaminated medicinal syrups Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators have demonstrated that simple, rapid, and inexpensive tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups—contaminants that have tragically led to the deaths of hundreds of children worldwide.
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Early normalization of weight can protect the heart from childhood overweight Overweight as a child is not necessarily a risk factor for heart attack later in life. If weight is normalized before adulthood, the heart seems unaffected by the higher childhood BMI, according to a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg.
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