Check out the new link in the blogroll to the Neurophilosopher. I found a lot of innovative content on the site, including an article about one of my favorite neuroscientists, Santiago Ramon y Cajal. I’m going to log off my blog and go watch the neurosurgery webcast on the site. Read more…
Contemporary diagnostic criteria for autism have not changed much from the original descriptions offered by Leo Kanner in 1943 [1]. The three core features, which all individuals with autism must exhibit in order to be formally diagnosed, are impairments in social interaction, impairments in communication, and restricted and repetitive Read more…
In an earlier post, we tried to untangle some of the ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Miodrag Stojkovic (who incidentally produced Britain’s first human embryo clone) and his colleagues at the Prince Felipe Investigation Centre in Valencia, Spain, have managed to remove stem cells from blastocyst Read more…
Talk about culture shock. School starts Monday. I haven’t taught since last March. Cal Poly is on quarter system, and if you teach Summer Quarter as I did in 2005, you can either get extra money or take an academic quarter off. I chose to take off Spring Quarter. So Read more…
This weekend’s football action is notable for it’s seven matchups of ranked teams. Fortunately, we will be able to see one in person–#4 ranked USC and #19 ranked Nebraska at the Coliseum. Although I feel somewhat guilty taking time off from other work to watch football, this advertisement from this Read more…