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May 26, 2010

Autism and white Matter/Myelination: the opposite of creativty/psychosis phenotype?

Image via WikipediaA new paper by Ben Bashat et al extends their earlier findings that had found that there was accelerated maturation of white matter in children with Autism. In this new paper they use Tract Based Spatial statistics (TBSS) to determine the white matter integrity of children (age around 3 years) with Autism as More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Creativity-psycho

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January 21, 2010

Gene essential for neuron development and contextual memory

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New research demonstrates the essential function of the gene PC3/Tis21/BTG2 in the maturation of the neuron, and how this plays an important role in the integration of the neuron into memory circuits.

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April 24, 2009

Maturation of Personality in Adolescence

Haven’t written about adolescence for some time now. The hype of antidepressants and suicidal behavior in adolescents has slow down a bit. Did some about adolescents being brain damaged people. To reach to some conclusions about maturation of personality during adolescence we need a scale and a lot of follow up data in a large [...]... Klimstra, T., Hale, W., Raaijmakers, Q., Branj

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