Design and analysis of personalized deep neural networks for modeling numerical cognition and learning disabilities. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq9990 Using AI to analyze ...

What causes learning difficulties in children? Conventional neuroscience suggests that various regions of the brain serve as predictors for different disorders associated with learning disabilities.

Mainstream cognitive assessment tools are often insufficient for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), creating a need for validated clinical tools that can help accurately ...

A nanomaterial based on a platform developed by Professor Samuel Stupp crosses the blood-brain barrier and targets harmful ...

In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the ...

People who have lost the ability to move or speak may soon have a new option: surgically implanted devices that link the brain to a computer. More than two decades after researchers first demonstrated ...

More than 5 million Americans are living with permanent TBI-related disability related to traumatic brain injury, which can severely impact quality of life. Unfortunately, people with TBI are often ...

Shelby Morrissey, 8, listens intently to the words she hears in her left ear while trying to ignore the classical music coming from a headphone into her right ear. In this 30-minute exercise, she ...

Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed. Across 218 coastal ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major source of disability and mortality while outcomes remain highly variable due to the complexities and multisystem nature of TBI and the fact that there is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lori Frasier, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) In the early 1990s when I was a young ...