Randomized Manipulation of Early Cognitive Experience Impacts Adult Brain Structure.

Does early exposure to cognitive and linguistic stimulation impact brain structure? Or do genetic predispositions account for the co-occurrence of certain neuroanatomical phenotypes and a tendency to engage children in cognitively stimulating activities? Low socioeconomic status infants were randomized to either 5 years of cognitively and linguistically stimulating center-based care or a comparison condition. The intervention resulted in large and statistically significant changes in brain structure measured in midlife, particularly for male individuals. These findings are the first to extend the large literature on cognitive enrichment effects on animal brains to humans, and to demonstrate the effects of uniquely human features such as linguistic stimulation.

Evaluation of fertility after operative hysteroscopy to remove retained products of conception.

Unlabelled: Evaluation of fertility after operative hysteroscopy to remove retained products of conception.

Objective: To study fertility after operative hysteroscopy for the management of prolonged trophoblastic retention, and the complications of this procedure.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort in a university hospital.

[Elastography of cervix to predict delay from induction to delivery].

Objective: Induction of labor for medical indications has become a routine practice. To date, the Bishop score remains as the standard method to predict the duration of induced labor. Elastography is an objective method of assessing the relative consistency of tissues.

Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): a reliability study.

The Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA) is a 14-item instrument scored by emergency room staff members to assess aggression risk during an upcoming psychiatric hospitalization. In this study, we investigated the inter-rater reliability of the BRACHA 0.9, the latest version of the instrument.