Click Here to Read: Study Links Autism to Maternal Obesity. A new study suggests that obese mothers have a heightened risk of having an autistic child By Abby Ohlheiser on the Slate website on April 9, 2012.
A new study has linked obesity before pregnancy to a heightened risk for autism in the child
Click Here to Read: Brain activity gives scientists clues about eating disorders by Dawn Turner Trice in the Chicago Tribune on April 11, 2012.
Dawn Turner Trice
Click Here to Read: The Unconscious and the Silent Brain on the Costa Rica News website on April 8th, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna on this website.
Click Here to Read: Eric Kandel’s Vision on this website.
Click Here to Read: A Conversation With Eric R. Kandel: A Quest to Understand How Memory Works on this website.
Click Here to Read: How girls and boys differ when it comes to autism By Peter Szatmari on CNN website on April 4, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk by Benedick Carey in the New York Times on April 4, 2012.
Members of a team conducting autism studies: from left, Dr. Evan E. Eichler, Jay A. Shendure and Brian O’Roak of the University of Washington.
Click Here to Read: Neuro Smackdown: Scientists Debate How to Solve the Mystery of the Brain by Casey Schwartz on the Daily Beast website on April 4, 2012.
Casey Schwartz
Click Here to Read: Changes in Prefrontal-Limbic Function in Major
Depression after 15 Months of Long-Term Psychotherapy by Anna Buchheim, Roberto Viviani1, Henrik Kessler, Horst Kachele4, Manfred Cierpka, Gerhard Roth, Carol George, Otto F. Kernberg1, Georg Bruns, and Svenja Taubner on the PLSO one website.
Click Here to To Read: Changes of brain activation pre- post short-term psychodynamic inpatient psychotherapy: An fMRI study of panic disorder patients by Manfred E. Beutela, Rudolf Starkb, Hong Panc, David Silbersweigd, Sylvia Dietricha in the Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Journal 2010 issue.’
Click Here to Read: Multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy induces normalization of reward related activity in somatoform disorder byMoritz De Greck, Lisa Scheidt, Annette F. B Ö Lter, J Ö Rg Frommer, Cornelia Ulrich, Eva Stockum , Bj Ö Rn Enzi5 , Claus Tempelmann, Thilo Hoffmann, & Georg Northoff in the The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2010 , 00: 1-13.
Click Here to Read: Mapping the brain’s superhighways. Scanning technique reveals order to information flowBy Laura Sanders on the Science News website on March 29th, 2012.
Click Here to Read: A Little Device That’s Trying to Read Your Thoughts By David Ewing Duncan in the New York Times on April 2, 2012.
Stephen Hawking
Click Here to Read: Brain scan foretells who will fold under pressure Tests on high-stakes math problems identify key regions of neural activity linked to choking by Laura Sanders on the Science News website on Monday, April 2nd, 2012.
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Click Here to Read: ADHD Is Over-Diagnosed, Experts Say on the Science Daily website on March 30, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Eric Kandel’s Vision By Alexander C. Kafka on the Chronicle for Higher Education website on March 11, 2012.
Kandel and Gustave Klimt’s “The Kiss” (1907-08)
Click Here to Read: Neuroscience and the pursuit of justice By Angela Herring on the news @ Northeastern website on March 23, 2012.
Dr. Judith Edersheim of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior delivered the 13th annual Francine and Michael Saferstein Memorial Lecture in Forensic Science on Tuesday
“This article studies the statistical association between hypnotics use (for sleep) and increased mortality. They review over 30,000 patients for 2.5 years, controlling for other health variables.
Of course, statistical correlation is not the same as causality. But, the paper gives us pause and opportunity to pursue this further.”
N. Szajnberg, MD
Click Here to Read: Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study by Daniel F Kripke, Robert D Langer, and Lawrence E Kline on the BMJ Open newsletter on March 3, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The True Story of the Father of Chemotherapy, Inspiration for a Classic Film By Roslyn Bernstein on the Webzine website on March 19, 2012.
Click Here to Read:Night shift: For nearly a century, Chicago scientists have explored the deep universe of sleep By Lydialyle Gibson in the University fo Chicago Magazine Print edition for March–April 2012.
Click Here to Read: What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy By Susan Dominus in the New York Times on March 10, 2012.
Gillian Laub for The New York Times
Lydia Parker, foreground, at home with her sister. She got one of the bruises on her face when an uncontrollable tic caused her to hit herself with her cellphone
Click Here to Read: A Conversation With Eric R. Kandel: A Quest to Understand How Memory Works by Claudia Dryfus in the New York Times on March 06, 2012.
INSIDE THE MIND Dr. Eric R. Kandel at Columbia University Medical Center.
Click Here to Read and View: What’s Causing Cheerleader Hysteria? Signs of a Struggle Within the Brain by Vaughan Bell on the Discover Magazine website on February 29, 2012.
lick Here to Read: Consciousness Emerges: Somewhere along a tangled path, sights, sounds and insights pop into awareness By Laura Sanders on the Science Times website on February 25th, 2012.