Here is what I am reading today: lumosity “Lumosity, a startup with more than 40 science-inspired web and mobile games for exercising the brain, has surpassed 11 million members in 190 countries and saw 400% growth in 2010.” violent video games are probably okay “A long-standing concern among parents and Read more…
Here are some of my readings for today: EEG diagnosis and autism “A computational physicist and a cognitive neuroscientist at Children’s Hospital Boston have come up with the beginnings of a noninvasive test to evaluate an infant’s autism risk. It combines the standard electroencephalogram (EEG), which records electrical activity in Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: autism and testosterone cycle imbalance “For every female that has autism there are four males. To better understand this sex bias, Valerie Hu at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington DC and colleagues studied a gene implicated in autism called retinoic Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: do snails dream? “Richard Stephenson and Vern Lewis of the University of Toronto in Canada noticed that great pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) in tanks in their lab spent 10 per cent of the time in a “quiescent” state: they would attach themselves to Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: what dieting tells about how you keep the weight off “This study examined the relationship between previous dietary adherence during a low-calorie diet weight loss intervention and subsequent weight change during a 2-year follow-up for weight maintenance.” you can smell vibrating molecules? “How Read more…