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Sleep midpoint variability, duration variability, and social jetlag were each associated with lower receptive vocabulary and visuospatial memory scores in 379 preschool-age children, with executive attention unaffected by any sleep regularity measure.

Among 206,464 mother-child pairs, children of mothers with stably optimal glycemic management after a GDM diagnosis had obesity risk at age 10 nearly identical to children unexposed to GDM. Children of mothers with suboptimal trajectories had a 62% higher risk.

In a small neuroimaging substudy of children exposed to prenatal stress during Superstorm Sandy, stronger early adaptive skills were associated with limbic activation patterns resembling unexposed peers.

“There is growing reason to believe [puberty blockers] are exacerbating the very dysphoria they are supposed to resolve and placing vulnerable children on a largely self-reinforcing path toward permanent transitions, often with serious and lasting physical consequences.” – Dr. Julia Mason

“Increased exposure to bedroom LAN, particularly during the post-sleep period, is significantly associated with earlier onset of breast development in girls and testicular development in boys.” — Study authors, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

The study found that novelty preference and task orientation in 7-month-olds were the strongest predictors of cognitive ability at age 30.