Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two neurological conditions measured by head size, because of reliance on World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves, according to new research in CMAJ.
Brain cell connections weakened during first half of sleep, study reveals
During sleep, the brain weakens the new connections between neurons that had been forged while awake – but only during the first half of a
May 2, 2024