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#31: Autism: One Label, Many Diseases | Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine
People with autism are regularly lumped together and treated as a single group. But the world’s largest genetic study of the condition “shows that autism is many different diseases,” says Stanley Nelson , a professor of genetics and psychiatry at UCLA who collaborated on the investigation. “That insight should greatly enlighten how we think about autism and attempt to treat it.”
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Brain Evolution with Gary Lynch, PhD (BSP 48) - Home - Brain Science Podcast
Gary Lynch Episode 48 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Gary Lynch, PhD , co-author (with Richard Granger) of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence . Dr. Lynch has spent decades studying memory at the level of the synapse. His work with computer simulations based on how the brain really works led him to a fascination with the question of how our brains got so large.
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The intramural debate on the differential diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents is unlikely to find a quick resolution. Part of the reason is the complexity of symptom presentation in these children and the frequent overlap with other disorders, said Boris Birmaher, M.D., who chaired a session on the topic at the annual meting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Chicago last October. "In bipolar, symptoms fluctuate and appear in addition to a child's other psychiatric disorders," said Birmaher, a professor of psychiatry, director of the child and adolescent anxiety program, and co-director of the child and adolescent bipolar services at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Hundreds of potential comorbidities make everything murkier, he said. Not just psychopathology, but also family and neighborhood environments may affect the child.
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Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system . [ 1 ] Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology . However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as psychology , chemistry , computer science , engineering , linguistics , mathematics , medicine and allied disciplines , philosophy , and physics . The term neurobiology is usually used interchangeably with the term neuroscience, although the former refers specifically to the biology of the nervous system , whereas the latter refers to the entire science of the nervous system. The scope of neuroscience has broadened to include different approaches used to study the molecular , cellular , developmental , structural , functional , evolutionary , computational , and medical aspects of the nervous system.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2009) — Short-term memory may depend in a surprising way on the ability of newly formed neurons to erase older connections. That's the conclusion of a report in the November 13th issue of the journal Cell , a Cell Press publication, that provides some of the first evidence in mice and rats that new neurons sprouted in the hippocampus cause the decay of short-term fear memories in that brain region, without an overall memory loss. The researchers led by Kaoru Inokuchi of The University of Toyama in Japan say the discovery shows a more important role than many would have anticipated for the erasure of memories.
To make memories, new neurons must erase older ones
How the Mind Works | Video channel on TED.com
At a conference about ideas, it’s important to step back and consider the engine that creates them: the human mind. How exactly does the brain -- a three-pound snarl of electrochemically frantic nervous tissue -- create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, or the sense of self -- and how reliable is it? Dan Dennett contemplates the mind as an ecosystem in which a new class of entities -- memes -- can compete, coexist, reproduce and flourish, and asks what sorts of nefarious things these entities might be up to. An enthusiastic Dan Gilbert presents his new research on the peculiar, counterintuitive -- and perhaps a smidge deflating -- secret to happiness. And Jeff Hawkins explains why a napkin-sized sheaf of cellular matter, wrinkled into a ball, will fundamentally change the direction of the computer industry.
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