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Cortical Chauvinism

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Information on autism from a leading expert in the field.

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Mammals Suck... Milk!

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This blog will showcase and synthesize (pun intended!) the MANY awesome advances currently occurring in milk research from the molecule to the organism to the population to the taxon, with implications for nutrition, medicine, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

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the community site for developmental biologists

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Wiring the Brain

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how the brain wires itself up during development, how the end result can vary in different people and what happens when it goes wrong

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Getting rid of all the depressions in my life

I have a Google alert set up for the word “depression.” Everyday I get an email from Google with some stories and blogs that mention the word “depression.” The cool thing about this alert is that it allows me to keep up with depression treatments, research and public policy, I also get a healthy dose [...]

Teenage Pregnancy: 10 Tips for Telling Your Parents

You’ve done the test. You’ve done the test again. You’ve done the test for a third time and thrown up. Yep, you’re 16 and pregnant. You didn’t plan it. You thought you’d taken precautions but you’re pregnant. Oh boy, now what? For some teenagers this may be a happy moment, yet for others it can [...]

LEGO Faces are Getting Angrier; So What?

Transport yourselves back to sprawling across the living room floor—colored blocks scattered like confetti about the carpet—building the highest towers and fattest spaceships (without directions, of course), all the while ignoring your parents' yelps as they step on a rogue piece. There's nothing quite like LEGO. And certainly there's nothing quite like those ubiquitious yellow, blocky LEGO faces. But a piece in The Daily Mail last week cites that "LEGO faces are getting angrier," and that […]

BAIRD, A., GRUBER, S., FEIN, D., MASS, L., STEINGARD, R., RENSHAW, P., COHEN, B. & YURGELUN-TODD, D. (1999). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Facial Affect Recognition in Children and Adolescents, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (2) 195-199. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199902000-00019

Mar, R. (2011). The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension, Annual Review of Psychology, 62 (1) 103-134. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145406

Thomas, K., Drevets, W., Whalen, P., Eccard, C., Dahl, R., Ryan, N. & Casey, B. (2001). Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults, Biological Psychiatry, 49 (4) 309-316. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01066-0

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Prominent Turkish Academic Attempts Suicide in Jail

Former Council of Higher Education President Kemal Gürüz has been detained for almost a year

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