Potential Down’s syndrome treatment may improve cognition through epigenetic activity in brain

by Centre for Genomic Regulation

4 years ago
Down's Syndrome, epigenetics, brain, learning, memory, cognitive stimulation

Down’s syndrome is one of the most common causes of learning disabilities. Caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21, it is a genetic disorder with no known cure or trea...

Children's brain recovers from stroke and acquires language abilities thanks to its plasticity

by Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

5 years ago
language, children, learning, stroke

In response to a stroke that affects the left hemisphere, children's brains assign language functions to the right hemisphere • The study demonstrates our brain's ability to reconnect in different w...

Can algorithms effectively predict if a young person will reoffend?

by UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

5 years ago
algorithms, computer, learning, recidivism, youth

This is the field of study of a paper by Carlos Castillo, director of the Web Science and Social Computation research group and Emilia Gómez, a researcher at UPF and the European Commission’s Joint...