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Time-Lapse Movies of Brain Development: Supplementary Data Supplementary Data (Video Sequences) This page contains supplementary data for the manuscript entitled: Dynamic Mapping of Human Cortical Development during Childhood through Early Adulthood (Authors: Nitin Gogtay MD, Jay N. Giedd MD, Leslie Lusk BA, Kiralee M. Hayashi BS, Deanna Greenstein PhD, A. Press Release Time-Lapse Imaging Tracks Brain Maturation Ages 5 to 20. Figure 1 High-Resolution Image Right Oblique Movie Top Movie Bottom Movie Left Movie Animated GIFs: Related Projects Your Amazing Brain You carry around a three-pound mass of wrinkly material in your head that controls every single thing you will ever do. From enabling you to think, learn, create, and feel emotions to controlling every blink, breath, and heartbeat—this fantastic control center is your brain. It is a structure so amazing that a famous scientist once called it "the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe." Your brain is faster and more powerful than a supercomputer. Your brain generates enough electricity to power a lightbulb. Neurons send information to your brain at more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour. When you learn, you change the structure of your brain. Riding a bike seems impossible at first. Exercise helps make you smarter.

Le (mini)blog du Muséum — Connecté à vie : notre cerveau, le meilleur des... How the internet is changing language 16 August 2010Last updated at 10:01 By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed? The web is a hub of neologisms In April 2010 the informal online banter of the internet-savvy collided with the traditional and austere language of the court room. Christopher Poole, founder of anarchic image message board 4Chan, had been called to testify during the trial of the man accused of hacking into US politician Sarah Palin's e-mail account. During the questioning he was asked to define a catalogue of internet slang that would be familiar to many online, but which was seemingly lost on the lawyers. At one point during the exchange, Mr Poole was asked to define "rickrolling". "Rickroll is a meme or internet kind of trend that started on 4chan where users - it's basically a bait and switch. "Yes." "He was some kind of singer?" Txt spk

The Brain and Senses Welcome to the Brain and Senses! Hi, we are Dr Ellen Poliakoff and Dr Luke Jones and we’re experimental psychologists. This means that we find out how people think and how the brain works. When we are not teaching - or lecturing as it's called at University! Luke's research Do you find that time passes quickly when you are having fun, but crawls along slowly when you have to do something boring? We think that we have an internal clock in our brains that we use to answer questions like these: How long did the event last for? How long will it be until something happens? How long ago did it happen? How well do we remember how long something lasted for? I'm particularly interested in finding out lots more about the latter. Ellen's research We often take our movements for granted, because most of the time we don't have to think about what we are doing. I am doing some research into Parkinson's disease - an illness that affects the brain and makes it difficult to move.

Connecté à vie : notre cerveau, le meilleur des réseaux (2/3) - Thema - Museum Copyright CNRS Photothèque/Université de Strasbourg - GRIGIS Antoine, mise en évidence par IRM (imagerie par résonance magnétique) de faisceaux de substance blanche dans un cerveau humain. Au même titre que le cerveau embryonnaire se débarasse d'un surplus de neurones « non cablés », le cerveau sélectionne les synapses les plus actives et donc les plus indispensables à son activité. Une quantité excessive de synapses peut en effet nuire à la qualité de la transmission de l'information car celles qui ne sont pas porteuses de sens produisent un bruit de fond parasite et gaspillent de l'énergie. Les synapses inutiles, reépérables par leur faible activité, sont sélectivement éliminées de façon à permettre aux neurones d'établir de nouveaux contacts. Source : Muséum de Marseilles Elle est indispensable à l'acquisition de nouveaux apprentissages et à l'entretien de nos capacités de réflexion et d'imagination. Ccc by-nc-nd Hé'louïse.

The benefits of new technology in language learning Gary Motteram, editor of the British Council publication Innovations in learning technologies for English language teaching, explains how the arrival of digital technologies in the classroom has helped learning. Technology is very much part of language learning throughout the world at all different levels. We are as likely to find it in the primary sector as much as in adult education. I no longer need to make the case for computers to be provided in education, because computers are there in abundance in all their modern forms.We may see traditional computers in labs, teachers and students walking around with laptops or tablet PCs, and many people will have a mobile phone in their pocket that is capable of doing rather more than the mainframe computers that started computer-assisted language learning in the 1960s. I do recognise that there are many kinds of digital divide, and that this is not true everywhere. What can put teachers off using technology

10 Reasons Why Handheld Devices Should Be Banned for Children Under the Age of 12 | Cris Rowan The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Pediatrics state infants aged 0-2 years should not have any exposure to technology, 3-5 years be restricted to one hour per day, and 6-18 years restricted to 2 hours per day (AAP 2001/13, CPS 2010). Children and youth use 4-5 times the recommended amount of technology, with serious and often life threatening consequences (Kaiser Foundation 2010, Active Healthy Kids Canada 2012). Handheld devices (cell phones, tablets, electronic games) have dramatically increased the accessibility and usage of technology, especially by very young children (Common Sense Media, 2013). As a pediatric occupational therapist, I’m calling on parents, teachers and governments to ban the use of all handheld devices for children under the age of 12 years. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Problems - Suffer the Children - 4 minutesSolutions - Balanced Technology Management - 7 minutes Technology Use Guidelines for Children and Youth

Screen Time Isn't Always Bad for Kids Most parents know the importance of reading to their children. Building a collection of baby books is one activity many parents enjoy doing when they first learn they are expecting. My 1-year-old son already has a large collection of books. From classics like Corduroy to bilingual books like La Oruga Muy Hambrienta / The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The significance of reading to kids, especially infants, was underscored recently when the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a new policy statement recommending pediatric providers promote reading to children from infancy until at least kindergarten. Parents are often told to regulate their children’s exposure to screen time when it comes to playing video games or watching television. According to Dr. However, Dr. Here are some additional, traditional reading tips for parents from Reading is Fundamental, many of which can be applied to both printed books and e-readers: Read aloud to your child everyday. Google+

AAPNEWS : AAP News Copyright © 2015 by the American Academy of Pediatrics Authors When families seek our professional advice on managing technology in their children’s lives, we turn to research-based AAP guidelines that promote positive media use and discourage potentially harmful use. The most well-known of these guidelines discourage “screen time” for children under age 2 and limit “screen time” to two hours a day for children over age 2 (Abstract/FREE Full Text; Abstract/FREE Full Text). As we know, however, scientific research and policy statements lag behind the pace of digital innovation. Case in point: The 2011 AAP policy statement Media Use by Children Younger Than Two Years was drafted prior to the first generation iPad and explosion of apps aimed at young children. Today, more than 30% of U.S. children first play with a mobile device when they still are in diapers, according to Common Sense Media. The following key messages for parents emerged: Media is just another environment. Dr.

Kids And Screen Time: What Does The Research Say? : NPR Ed Kids are spending more time than ever in front of screens, and it may be inhibiting their ability to recognize emotions, according to new research out of the University of California, Los Angeles. The study, published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, found that sixth-graders who went five days without exposure to technology were significantly better at reading human emotions than kids who had regular access to phones, televisions and computers. The UCLA researchers studied two groups of sixth-graders from a Southern California public school. One group was sent to the Pali Institute, an outdoor education camp in Running Springs, Calif., where the kids had no access to electronic devices. For the other group, it was life as usual. At the beginning and end of the five-day study period, both groups of kids were shown images of nearly 50 faces and asked to identify the feelings being modeled. A Wake-Up Call For Educators There's a big takeaway for schools, Greenfield says.

Media and Children ​​Sample Social Media Messages Twitter Follow @AmerAcadPeds and @HealthyChildren for messages to share. New tool from @AmerAcadPeds helps parents create a personalized Family Media Use Plan #DoGoodDigital Design a Family Media Use Plan based on your child's age, health & activities #DoGoodDigital Designate media-free times & locations for your family. Need help managing your kids' media time? In new recommendations, AAP offers tips to help parents manage their child's digital landscape #DoGoodDigital Facebook Worried about screen time? Questions about screen time? Digital media offers opportunities and challenges for children. Pinterest

Kids Increasingly Staring at Glowing Screens, Study Finds JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, in a media-saturated society, how much time are our youngest children spending in front of their screens? Pediatricians have long warned of the risks of exposing young children to too much television and other electronic devices. A new study suggests such warnings are having little effect. The study, released today by Common Sense Media, surveyed nearly 1,400 parents. Among it findings, nearly half of all kids under age 2 watch televisions or DVDs for up to two hours daily. The study also chronicles the increasing rise in the use of computers and interactive phones, tablets and other digital devices by children. At the same time, the study posits a growing new kind of digital divide, a so-called app gap of parents who download new media apps for their children to use. The study comes just one week after the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a report saying television watching has no educational value for very young children. DR. Yes. DR. DR. DR. DR.