... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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