Anyone who has participated in a bracket competition this year will definitely NOT understand the NCAA Basketball Championships!
Here is what I am reading today:
“It’s been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative analysis of their brains shows neuroanatomical differences that may be responsible for these behaviors, from the aggression more typical of chimpanzees to the social tolerance of bonobos.”
“The next time you watch that guy on the dance floor do the robot to Mr. Roboto, his automatonic, jerky moves will speak to a surprising part of your brain: a region scientists thought was reserved for making sense of actions by others that you too are able to perform. “
“The substance ghrelin plays an important role in various addictions, such as alcoholism and binge-eating. It also impacts on sugar consumption, which is due, in part, to genetic factors, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.”
“Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don’t make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four centuries, shows that differences in the craniofacial features of men and women have become less pronounced.”
“One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. “Families want to know, ‘So what does this mean?'” says Alice Charach, head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Two recent, large reviews of previous studies reveal one disquieting answer: Getting an ADHD diagnosis in childhood is associated with nicotine and alcohol dependence in adulthood.”
“People with autism use their brains differently from other people, which may explain why some have extraordinary abilities to remember and draw objects in detail, according to new research. University of Montreal scientists say in autistic people, the brain areas that deal with visual information are highly developed.”
2 Comments
Annadavis · April 7, 2011 at 7:56 am
With humans, when one addictive behavior is targeted, we often find that the person simply replaces it with another. I wonder if the rat resorted to other addictive behaviors.
mdean · April 7, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I completely agree with the article about autism. I used to babysit for a young boy who had autism and he was very good at memory games, but had difficulty understanding my facial expressions when I was disciplining him.
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