Brain Changes Suggest Autism Starts In The Womb
The symptoms of autism may not be obvious until a child is a toddler, but the disorder itself appears to begin well before birth.Brain tissue taken from children who died and also happened to have...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Childhood: Why Early Memories Fade
Francis Csedrik, who is 8 and lives in Washington, D.C., remembers a lot of events from when he was 4 or just a bit younger. There was the time he fell "headfirst on a marble floor" and got a...
View ArticleGene Linked To Alzheimer's Poses A Special Threat To Women
A gene associated with Alzheimer's disease appears especially dangerous to women and may be one reason that more women than men are diagnosed with the disease.The gene, known as APOE4, increases the...
View ArticleOne Scientist's Quest To Vanquish Epileptic Seizures
In the early 1990s, a young brain researcher named Ivan Soltesz heard a story that would shape his career.His adviser told him about a school for children whose epileptic seizures were so severe and...
View ArticleMax Planck Goes To Florida, Invites Brain Scientists To Join
Germany's famous Max Planck Society has opened a brain research institute in Jupiter, Fla. It's another move in the international competition to attract the best brain researchers.
View ArticleBursts Of Light Create Memories, Then Take Them Away
You can't just open up a living brain and see the memories inside.So Roberto Malinow, a brain scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has spent years trying to find other ways to...
View ArticleA Coastal Paradise Confronts Its Watery Future
Dan Reiter, 37, is a long-board surfer and contractor who used to live in Tampa, Fla. Then he discovered the surf breaks along a stretch of coast south of Cape Canaveral. "It's one of the most...
View ArticleFor Healthy Liberians, Life Continues — With Some Adjustments
Ebola has killed more than 1,300 people in Liberia's capital of Monrovia. But for the million-plus residents who aren't sick, life goes on even as their city is reshaped by death.On market day, the...
View ArticleMedicine's Subtle Art Gives A Man The Chance To Breathe Again
Bob Smithson had been in the critical care unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for more than a week. He had a rare neuromuscular disease, and his 78-year-old body was being kept alive by...
View ArticleBrain Scans May Help Predict Future Problems, And Solutions
Brain scans may soon be able to help predict a person's future — some aspects of it, anyway.Information from these scans increasingly is able to suggest whether a child will have trouble with math,...
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