SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND 37 brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned As. Jonathan puzzled over why some of his classmates struggled, and his parents told him he had a special gift. In the seventh grade, however, Jonathan suddenly lost interest in school, refusing to do homework or study for tests. As a consequence, his gra...

Young children's everyday scientific thinking often occurs in the context of parent-child interactions. In a study of naturally occurring family conversation, parents were three times more likely to explain science to boys than to girls while using interactive science exhibits in a museum. This difference in explanation occurred despite the fact that parents were equally likely to talk to their...

STUDY POPULATION. Four hundred students with physiciandiagnosed asthma attending inner-city elementary schools are currently being recruited from screening surveys collected during the spring and phenotypically characterized at baseline in the summer in an ongoing longitudinal study (SICAS [School Inner-City Asthma Study]). The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of indoor alle...

Background Carrying heavy backpacks by school students at growth age can cause irreversible physical harms. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between backpack weight and the incidence of lordosis, kyphosis, scoliosis, and dropped shoulders in elementary school students. Materials and Methods This descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2015 in Abadan, Iran, and 383 elementa...

STUDY POPULATION. Four hundred students with physiciandiagnosed asthma attending inner-city elementary schools are currently being recruited from screening surveys collected during the spring and phenotypically characterized at baseline in the summer in an ongoing longitudinal study (SICAS [School Inner-City Asthma Study]). The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of indoor alle...

background: early detection of renal diseases in children can be beneficial for prevention, delaying disease progression, reduction of the number of patients with progressive renal failure. the most common metabolic disorders predisposing renal calculus in children are: hypercalciuria, hyperuricosuria, hyperoxaluria, renal tubular acidosis, and hypocitraturia. objectives: in this research, we s...

BACKGROUND High school based chlamydia screening has been shown to increase uptake and detect hidden infections among sexually active adolescents. Our study aimed to: i) examine the proportions of 15-20 year-olds tested in a high school based screening and previously in clinical practice, ii) determine chlamydia prevalence according to testing pattern, and iii) examine factors associated with t...

Background Proteinuria is a well-known indicator of renal dysfunction. In this study, we evaluated the frequency of proteinuria in a sample of healthy Iranian elementary school students using both dipsticks and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) methods. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional study was performed on 478 school students aged 7-9 years who were selected by multistage r...