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Charlie McHenry

Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories - A team from Columbia and Yale University scanned the brains of 26 infants and toddlers aged 4 to 25 months as they completed a memory task. They found that at roughly a year old, a part of the brain crucial to memory formation spun into action and began generating neural signals related to things the kids remembered from the tests. #memory #brain #physiology #BrainDevelopment #thinking #ChildGrowthAndDevelopment #consciousness
singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/

SingularityHub · Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making MemoriesA new study on "infantile amnesia" aims to answer a century-old mystery: Why can’t most us remember our earliest years?
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J.H.Noyes

*O'Hara echoed the need for residential placement for young offenders at a Friday afternoon press conference.

"We've noticed this year the age of juvenile offenders who are very active has gotten younger," O'Hara said. "The system doesn't have an answer for what to do with someone this young."*

abc7.com/post/10-year-old-boy-

A cursory glance at reporting states says the #PandemicKids might be in trouble.

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DoomsdaysCW

In Millions of Homes, High #Fluoride in #TapWater May Be a Concern

In communities across the U.S., water contains levels of fluoride some experts say could be harm developing brains.

"The town of #Seagraves sits on the high plains of #WestTexas, not far from the New Mexico border. Nearby, water pumped from the #OgallalaAquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton.

"Dissolved in that West Texas water are copious amounts of fluoride. The tap water in Seagraves contains levels of the mineral that many experts believe could have #neurotoxic effects, lowering children’s IQs. The science on that effect is unsettled, and most experts say better research is needed. But nearly everyone agrees that at some point, high fluoride levels ought to be a matter of greater concern — even if they don’t always agree on what that point is.

"Many cities add low levels of fluoride to drinking water in a bid to prevent tooth decay, but the policy has long been controversial. Lost in that debate are the roughly 3 million Americans whose water naturally contains higher concentrations of fluoride — often at levels that even some fluoridation advocates now acknowledge could have neurodevelopmental effects.

"People in Seagraves and similarly affected communities are unlikely to be notified of those potential risks. Federal and state regulations require water utilities to tell customers receiving high-fluoride water that it could leave brown patches on children’s teeth, or even, at high levels, cause a rare skeletal condition.

"But, at least so far, the emerging science on neurological effects is not reflected in regulations. Consumer notices rarely, if ever, mention the possibility that fluoride could affect brain development. Nor do they contain advisories for pregnant women, even as many scientists, including some federal government researchers, now say there’s substantial evidence that such elevated fluoride levels can be harmful to developing fetuses."

undark.org/2024/05/06/tap-wate

Undark Magazine · In Millions of Homes, High Fluoride in Tap Water May Be a ConcernIn communities across the U.S., tap water contains levels of fluoride that some experts say could harm developing brains.
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