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Improved nutrition in early childhood may be linked to higher scores on intellectual tests, and this association is irrespective of the number of years of school attended, according to a report released on July 7, 2008 in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal.

Seeing her baby smile lights up the reward centres in the mother's brain in a way similar to that observed in experimens on drug addiction, said US and uk researchers who hope the findings give further insight into the development of the mother-baby bond, and how it can sometimes go wrong.

Associated Press July 08, 2008 With the number of autistic children growing, researchers are targeting new technologies to help detect the disorder at ever-younger ages in hopes of reversing some of autism's worst symptoms.

Associated Press July 08, 2008 CHICAGO - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.