“Tiger mom” parenting boosts teens' cognitive skills 📚 but undermines emotional development 😟, study suggests

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Bright children from low-income homes lose cognitive edge in early secondary school 🧠✨📚

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Vitamin D levels during pregnancy impact children’s later learning 🌞📚 - a new study has found that higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy were linked to better scores on cognitive tests in children aged seven to 12. 🧠👶

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Antidepressant vortioxetine linked to greater cognitive 🧠 and mood 😊 improvements in Alzheimer’s patients

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Cognitive ability becomes increasingly stable after age 3 🧠✨, study finds. Cognitive ability refers to a person’s capacity to acquire knowledge, think, reason, solve problems, and adapt to new situations.

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Children with learning difficulties, with or without ADHD, had lower performance across many cognitive domains. The profile of children with ADHD only was quite different. They performed at age-appropriate levels on cognitive tasks, but their attention challenges may interfere with some tasks. 🧠📚✨

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In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. Researchers found changes in genes involved in both the immune system 🛡️ and neuron growth 🧠, which may affect brain growth and complex cognitive functions.

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Study suggests that maternal treatment with SSRIs during breastfeeding does not affect the cognitive performance of the offspring. 🍼💊🧠

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Individuals exposed as children (0-17 years) to indoor air pollution from solid fuels performed significantly worse on cognitive tests in adulthood (45+ years) 🧠; with men, smokers 🚬 and regular alcohol users 🍻 particularly vulnerable to this effect.

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💡 New Study Links Prenatal Air Pollution to Infant Cognitive Delays
A study of 168 mother-child pairs in Spain (2018-2023) used eye-tracking to objectively measure infant cognitive development. Researchers found that increased exposure to air pollutants like NO2, BC, and PM2.5 during pregnancy was associated with decreased novelty preference in infants at 6 and 18 months, indicating potential cognitive deficits.

👁️ Eye-Tracking Reveals Air Pollution's Impact on Infant Brains
The research, published in Environmental Pollution (PMID: 41354286), employed a Visual Paired-Comparison (VPC) task to assess short-term memory in infants. The findings suggest that the prenatal period is a critical window where air pollution can negatively affect brain development, with possible stronger effects observed in boys.

📊 Quantifiable Impacts of Air Pollutants on Infant Cognition
For every increase in the most polluted quarter of exposure for NO2, BC, PM2.5, copper (Cu), and iron (Fe), infants showed a decline in novelty preference by specific percentages, highlighting a direct correlation between air quality and early cognitive abilities.

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Toddlers eating high amounts of processed meats and sugary snacks at age 2 show lower IQ scores by age 7, according to a new study of 3,400 children. The negative impact on cognitive development was nearly 2.5x stronger for children who experienced physical growth delays during infancy.

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🧠 Study published Jan 23, 2026, analyzed 4,275 children from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort, Brazil. Researchers investigated the link between diet at age 2 and IQ at ages 6-7.

🍎 An "unhealthy" diet (packaged snacks, processed meats, sweets, soft drinks) at age 2 was linked to lower IQ scores (p <0.001).

📉 Children with both an unhealthy diet and early-life growth deficits (low weight, height, or head circumference) experienced a 4.78-point IQ reduction compared to those with low adherence to the unhealthy diet.

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Dietary patterns at just two years of age are associated with cognitive performance at ages six and seven, suggesting that early childhood nutrition—particularly exposure to ultraprocessed foods—may play a meaningful role in shaping brain development

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🧠 Adolescent boys increasingly develop strengths in mechanical reasoning, while girls lean towards math and verbal skills as they age through high school.

🚗 These cognitive differences appear to shift with age, influenced by changes in mental processing speed.

📊 A study by Thomas Coyle analyzed data from nearly seven thousand adolescents aged 13-17, using the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

🚀 The findings suggest that as teenagers age, academic skills sharpen faster than practical problem-solving abilities like mechanical and spatial reasoning.

#CognitiveDevelopment #TeenageBrain #Education

Growing up in a disadvantaged environment not only hinders cognitive development but also weakens a person’s default willingness to trust others later in life. While higher intelligence generally makes people more trusting, early childhood adversity cuts this social benefit in half.

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High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation During Pregnancy and Test Based Cognitive Performance at Age 10 Years

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📱 Higher screen time since childhood linked to better cognitive processing in adolescence, suggesting screens can support learning and thinking if used actively.

🏃‍♀️ Girls with more light physical activity since childhood showed better working memory. Boys with more guided physical activity from childhood to adolescence also saw improved working memory.

🤔 Lesser self-reported unsupervised physical activity was unexpectedly tied to better cognitive processing. Device-measured activity showed no association, highlighting the complexity of assessment.

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Researchers found a significant association between declining air pollution and improved cognitive development in children. The study analyzed data from over 1,000 mother-child pairs and found a 26% increase in cognitive scores at age 3 with reduced air pollution in New York City.

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Escaping absolute poverty boosts adult cognitive abilities, study finds. Comprehensive poverty reduction policies improve both factual knowledge and abstract reasoning by elevating physical health, educational investment, and job opportunities.

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💡 Escaping absolute poverty has been shown to boost adult cognitive abilities, including factual knowledge and abstract reasoning, according to a new study on China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation policy.

📈 The policy, launched nationwide in 2015, improved crystallized intelligence by nearly five points and fluid intelligence by about half a point on average. These gains were linked to improvements in health, increased investment in education, and better job opportunities.

👩‍🏫 Women and individuals with lower levels of education saw larger improvements in crystallized intelligence, while adults with higher education experienced greater gains in fluid intelligence.

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