20-05-23 Daily-Gujarat-GPSC Current Affairs

The , on May 15, introduced theGujaratState Pre-Primary Education Policy, 2023, to regulate the unorganized preschool sector. The policy, along the lines of the National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy and the National Education Policy, stipulates that the children in such facilities should be at least three years old as of June 1 of that academic year.

Majority of these schools function from residential premises, have no overarching regulatory framework related to the course, fees charged, and quality of education. There are no definite numbers, too, of such facilities operating. The policy will help address several such issues.

Using a new visualisation tool known as false fluorescent neurotransmitters, neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in Schizophrenia, a serious mental Health disorder.

In a nutshell, the study, which comes a day after World Schizophrenia Day is marked,highlights the importance of vitamin D in brain development and the potential impact of deficiency on the onset of the mental condition.

Schizophrenia is associated with many developmental risk factors, and while the precise neurological causes of the disorder remain unknown, the mental health disorder is associated with a pronounced change in the way the brain uses dopamine.