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Adult brain can change within seconds
In: Science| neuroscience
17 Jul 2009Research done by neuroscientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) found that the adult brain can almost instantly change its re-wiring to adapt to new conditions.
People who has lost limbs often report feeling it when touched on the face. What wasn’t known was that the brain can readjust itself within 2 seconds. This led to the [...]
Have you ever wondered if there was any difference in human brain development or change in personality when a person has grown up in a bilingual household or environment?
Researchers from Baruch College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied how bilingual people’s personality is unconsciously affected when switching languages, according to an article published by Reuters.
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Brain difference linked to autism
In: autism| discoveries
8 May 2009Researchers from the University of North Carolina made an interest discovery. They found out that the amygdala in toddlers with autism is 13 percent larger than the one in unaffected kids. It is believed that during the last part of the first year of life, some kids’ amygdala starts to grow. This could also explain [...]
The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) is an innovative online project bringing together tens of thousands of people affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and hundreds of researchers in a search for answers.
Individuals with ASD and their families can share information in a secure setting to become part of the largest online autism research effort in [...]
New research sheds new light on Autism´s origins
In: autism
28 Feb 2008Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Children´s Center suggests that one of the origins of Autism could reside in antibodies (interfering with the fetal brain directly) produced by the mother during pregnancy, suggesting that the mother´s immune system could be a trigger or a factor in those already predisposed. Link to full article by [...]
Discovery in autism could improve diagnostic efficiency
In: autism| discoveries
13 Feb 2008Autism Disorder is one of the most elussive conditions a mental health professional can come across. Firstly, it is difficult to precisely diagnose due to it´s broad severity spectrum (depending on very subtle manifestations and timing of the condition it could be filed under Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome. And sometimes this subtle differences are [...]
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