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November 14, 2006

Biological Psychology

Chubby Toddlers At Risk For Cognitive Deficits….

University of Florida researchers reported that morbid obesity in toddlers, defined as weighing 150 percent of normal weight, is associated with lower IQs, cognitive delays, and lesions that appear similar to those found in Alzheimer’s disease. The morbidly obese toddlers had IQs of 78, although their normal-weighted siblings had IQs Read more…

By Laura Freberg, 19 yearsNovember 14, 2006 ago
Biological Psychology

Breakthrough in SIDS….

As an admitting clerk at the UCLA Emergency Room (my college job), one of the saddest cases I witnessed was the death of a young child with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The young parents had left their baby with the grandparents for the first time to take a weekend off Read more…

By Laura Freberg, 19 years ago
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