Here is what I am reading today: STAR TREK M&M’s‘ Too cute no to share what babies know at 10 months “New research from the University of Missouri indicates that at 10 months, babies start to understand another person’s thought process, providing new insights on how humans acquire knowledge and Read more…
Here we are walking to our Farmer’s Market! What’s on my reading list for today: the ‘rusty’ gene? “A genetic variant that makes small tweaks in an important brain protein may cause aging to hit some people’s brains harder than others. Pilots’ performance on a flight simulator test generally declines Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: How autistic brains develop Reporting in the current online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping, senior author Jennifer G. Levitt, a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA; first author Xua Hua, a UCLA postdoctoral Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: schizophrenia genetics “Staining performed by Konrad Talbot, PhD, targeting a marker for nerve cells involved in inhibition are shown in cross sections of the hippocampus, which is a part of the brain known to be affected in schizophrenia and involved in memory and Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: secrets of the human genome “Should people be told about any nasty surprises that scientists discover in their DNA during research projects? The question is becoming increasingly pertinent, as thousands of people sign up for studies in which their genomes will be sequenced. Read more…