Advertisements during football games often feature a stereotypical view of men who love football and women who love to shop. Now it appears that men and women are about equally likely to be “compulsive shoppers.” (Now I’m waiting for research on “compulsive football watching.”) A recent survey of over 2500 Read more…
An alert student forwarded to me an article in the BBC that relates to our class discussion about the brain’s reward circuitry. The author notes the classic studies of Olds and Milner in rats and Heath in human participants, and updates us on the potential use of brain stimulation. Tipu Aziz 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…
It surprises me greatly to wake up this morning on my 34th wedding anniversary. It took me a long time to be 34 years old, let alone be married that many years. One of my daughters had a poster in her dorm room of the ten steps to happiness. Step Read more…
Pier Ferrari and his colleagues at the University of Parma in Italy just published an article titled Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Macaques in PLOS–Biology. The authors demonstrated imitation of actions such as lip smacking and tongue protrusion on the infant monkeys’ first day of life. Imitation of this type is believed Read more…