Some genetic causes of intellectual disability discovered
Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:58:44 -0800 (PST)
University of Adelaide geneticist Dr Jozef Gecz and a team of Belgium
and UK scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in discovering
the causes of intellectual disability.
Dr Gecz, a senior researcher who is based at the Women?s and
Children?s Hospital in Adelaide, has collaborated with an
international ...
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Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:06:18 -0800 (PST)
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Language evolution
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:02:58 -0800 (PST)
This brief report in the Financial Times might be of interest:
Language evolves in quick bursts
By Clive Cookson
Published: February 1 2008 02:00 | Last updated: February 1 2008 02:00
Just like living organisms, languages change and evolve in quick
bursts rather than in a steady pattern, according to an ana ...
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Deep-brain stimulation
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:24:58 -0800 (PST)
I think this article in The Independent is interesting. It seems
techniques of deep-brain stimulation will advance theory as well as
clinical practice -- Dave.
Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Scientists performing experiment ...
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Human generated 'random numbers'
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:11:25 -0800 (PST)
The study below is reported in the BMJ's Minerva column. Minerva has
read the full study and says that the difference between the results
from normal people and those with a scientific background are so
different as to suggest that the latter are from another species.
Med Hypotheses. 2008;70(1):186-90. Epub 2007 ...
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The plague killed the already weak
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:56:48 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 29, 2008
Clues to Black Plague?s Fury in 650-Year-Old Skeletons
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Many historians have assumed that Europe?s deadliest plague, the Black
Death of 1347 to 1351, killed indiscriminately, young and old, hardy
and frail, healthy and sick alike. But two anthropologists were not so
sure. ...
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120 weddings a day
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:53:32 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 29, 2008
Findings
Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
By JOHN TIERNEY
PASADENA, Calif. ? The two students in Southern California had just
been introduced during an experiment to test their ?interpersonal
chemistry.? The man, a graduate student, dutifully asked the
undergraduate woman what ...
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The smart way to keep people passive?
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:12:48 -0800 (PST)
Here's an interesting quote from Chomsky:
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly
limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate
within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident
views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking go ...
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A need to rethink ADHD?
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:14:56 -0800 (PST)
Study Raises Questions About Diagnosis, Medical Treatment Of ADHD
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) ? A new UCLA study shows that only about
half of children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder, or ADHD, exhibit the cognitive defects commonly associated
with the condition.
The study also found th ...
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Consciousness lost and consciousness regained follow different paths
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:37 -0800 (PST)
Two different neural pathways regulate loss and regain of
consciousness during
general anesthesia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have
answered
long-running questions about the way that anesthetics act on the body,
by
showing that the cellular pathway for emerging from anesthesia is
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