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    Medical researchers have long understood that a pregnant mother’s diet has a profound impact on her developing fetus’s immune system and that babies — especially those born prematurely — who are fed breast milk have a more robust ability to fight disease, suggesting that even after childbirth, a mother’s diet matters. However, the biological mechanisms underlying these connections have remained…

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    Scientists have yet to answer the age-old question of whether or how sound shapes the minds of fetuses in the womb, and expectant mothers often wonder about the benefits of such activities as playing music during pregnancy. Now, in experiments in newborn mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins report that sounds appear to change “wiring” patterns in areas of the brain that process sound earlier than…

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    • Should expectant #moms play #music during #pregnancy? A study from @kanoldlab @HopkinsMedicine finds that #sounds may change the “wiring” patterns of a developing #brain earlier than scientists assumed and before the #earcanal opens. Find out more: https://t.co/cqhjsOXD4H

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    Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that destroys a premature infant’s intestinal lining, is often connected to the development of severe brain injury in those infants who survive. However, the means by which the diseased intestine “communicates” its devastation to the newborn brain has remained largely unknown. …

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    • .@HopkinsKids mouse study shows #Tlymphocytes — immune cells that normally protect the body — made to fight deadly gut disease in #preemies can travel to the brain & attack healthy #nervecells, causing #braininjury. @ScienceTM @HopkinsMedicine More on: https://t.co/xrkK0WSupF

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    A new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers of adults hospitalized for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa has strengthened the case for promoting rapid weight gain as part of overall efforts for a comprehensive treatment plan. The study findings, after analyzing data regarding 149 adult inpatients with anorexia nervosa in the Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program, stand in contrast to…

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    • .@JohnsHopkins_ED study shows that adult patients with #anorexia gave high ratings to a meal-based behavioral program with rapid weight gain. Results challenge clinician hesitancy to adopt faster weight gain approaches. (via @HopkinsMedNews) https://t.co/XFW2Uitywh