Hearing Loss Helped Thru Music Therapy

Image courtesy of surasakiStock at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net   I have observed that musicians tend to cope with hearing loss much better than ...

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On genotype and environmental exposure patterns

I was rather interested to read the paper by Michela Traglia and colleagues [1] ( open-access available here ) concluding that: " mate...

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"early medical events are associated with clinical ASD phenotypes"

The paper by Charlotte Willfors and colleagues [1] (open-access) provides some food for thought today and the observation that various indi...

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Running and neurogenesis; the plastic brain

A new   paper online in the Journal of Physiology ("Physical exercise increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male rats provided ...

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Endocrine disruptors and autism?

" Children with autism spectrum disorder had significantly increased serum MEHP, DEHP, and BPA [ mono-(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate (MEHP) ,...

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Baby teeth and autism research

" This report provides evidence that teeth can be useful biomarkers of early life exposure for use in epidemiologic case-control studie...

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Weighing up genetics and environment in autism

" Environment as important as genes in autism, study finds " read the press release about the study by Sven Sandin and colleagues...

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Dioxin exposure and autistic traits?

As promised in a previous post , today I'm turning my attention to the paper by Muneko Nishijo and colleagues  [1] and their conclusion ...

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