Children ages 3 to 7 who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have problems with attention, emotional control and peer relationships in mid-childhood, finds Massachusetts General Hospital pediatrician in a study published in Academic Pediatrics.

Neurobiological basis of human-pet relationship: fMRI identifies differences in response of mothers' brains when viewing images of their child and their dog, although common network of brain regions was involved in emotion, reward, affiliation, visual processing and social cognition for both cases