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    Government shutdown forces hospital to turn patients, including children, away

    Oct 02, 2013 08:40 PM EDT

    ... stasis for the duration of the shutdown. "If you expected new treatments for cancer or a new universal influenza vaccine or discovering the causes of autism were going to move forward at the maximum it could, that will not be the case...This is a profoundly discouraging day."Director of ...

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    Gaming Mr. Darcy: What Jane Austen Teaches Us About Economics

    Jul 10, 2013 04:38 PM EDT

    ... if Austen was on the autistic spectrum, but in a recent book, Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer does indeed analyze "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspective of autism. In "Jane Austen, Game Theorist," I suggest that social science and game theory in particular can be understood as the analytic investigation of insights ...

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    Mapping the Brain: Something We Can All Cheer

    Apr 04, 2013 12:18 PM EDT

    ... other scientists and physicians want to find out why the brain sometimes doesn't work right -- what happens in Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, autism and traumatic brain injury, as well as countless other neurological problems people have. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain ...

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    News Wrap: Senate Passes Spending Bill to Keep Government Operating

    Mar 20, 2013 04:00 AM EDT

    ... South Korea of a cyber-attack that shut down its Web sites for two days.A new government estimate puts the number of schoolchildren with autism at one in 50.  Officials from the Centers for Disease Control said this number relies on parents who report their child's disorder.  The ...

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    Seawater Saltiness Seen from Space

    Mar 01, 2013 05:55 PM EDT

    ... been taking up tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would be much higher, he said. QUICK BITES Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, though different, share several "genetic glitches that can nudge the brain along a path to mental illness ...

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    Will U.S. Forge Public-Private Partnership to Draw Brain Activity Map?

    Feb 20, 2013 05:00 AM EDT

    So, that means there's something like 1,000 trillion connections inside your brain and mine right now. And understanding that and how it works when it works well, and what goes wrong in a disease like Alzheimer's or autism or epilepsy or depression or schizophrenia, those are critical ...

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    Obama's Leaked Immigration Plan, Golfing Trip Cause Stir

    Feb 18, 2013 02:13 PM EDT

    ... or below. EmbedVideo(5750, 482, 304); Sarah Clune looks at the links between pregnant women taking folic acid and lowering a child's risk of autism. Paul Solman explores the president's minimum wage proposal. Our report with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday's "celestial close call" is here ...

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    Talking Robots Play Part in Therapeutic Treatment for People With Special Needs

    Jan 09, 2013 11:30 PM EDT

    Researchers at University of Notre Dame and University of Southern California have found that robots can be less intimidating than humans to some patients. Ray Suarez reports on how researchers are using machines as nontraditional therapists to treat conditions such as autism in children and strokes in seniors.

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    Obama Taps Biden to Oversee Effort on Addressing Gun Laws, Violence

    Dec 19, 2012 02:17 PM EDT

    ... that has gone viral since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. NewsHour duo Jenny Marder and Jason Kane take an in-depth look at autism and Asperger's, and why diagnosing shooter Adam Lanza is a problem. Ellen Rolfes writes on a new study on global religion. As part ...

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    Why Diagnosing Adam Lanza Is a Problem

    Dec 18, 2012 01:39 PM EDT

    ... Broomall, Pa., Asperger's specialist Randi Rentz teaches a range of children -- some "innocent and passive," and some "hostile." There's a saying in the autism community, she said: "If you've met one person [on the autism spectrum], you've only met one person on the autism spectrum." Rentz ...