There's been much excitement about the latest big genetic study into autism, published in Nature : the grandly titled Autism Genome Project, brought to you by a crack team of no fewer than 177 researchers.For a good summary of the research take a look here, and for a longer account here. In a nutshell, the authors examined DNA from almost 1000 people with an autism spectrum disorder. They were lo
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June 15, 2010
Oh Crap. More Autism Genes.
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August 14, 2009
Intentions (Kid-Style!)
Sending kids back to school includes a flurry of activities such as acquiring school supplies, clothes, and gear to arm your child for a new wave of learning. It is also a time of constant change with summer ending quickly and school beginning soon. Such change often elicits a wide array of emotions in kids such as excitement to see friends, nervousness to start a new school and a little scared f
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April 28, 2009
Turn left at the surge of excitement
We covered Christian Nold's brilliant project to create emotion maps of cities before, and I had the pleasure of going to the launch of his new book on Emotional Cartography on Friday. It's awesome for lots of reasons, but one of the best ones is that you can download it free from the project website.Nold came up with the idea of fusing a GSR machine, a skin conductance monitor that measures arou
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