University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
... Keynote lectures will include: cell mechanisms of language and learning; genetics, understanding and communication; motor disorders; optimising outcome in prematurity;epilepsy and disability; and non-accidental injury and child protection in childhood disability...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...to finding typos in a very large book written in a language you don't fully understand," said Troyanskaya, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. "All you know are some general rules of grammar and syntax. It would take you years t...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
From language to literature, from music to mathematics, a single protein appears central to the formation of the long-term memories needed to learn these and all other disciplines, according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the National Institute of C...Academics find that the finger of destiny points their way
..."This right brain development is at the expense of language abilities and people skills that men with a more usual level of testosterone develop and which can help them in social science subjects like psychology or education." Dr Brosnan said that men having levels of testosterone very much higher than normal......ns that are impaired in autistic children, such as language and attention span," Millonig says. Their n...ore the neural correlates of sound sensitivity and language deficits in autistic children. Many children with autism are delayed in the development of language,......ual signals, and this is time consuming, since for language each individual word has to be taught. "But for alarm signals," says Berger, "you start with a relatively small number of sounds you have to distinguish with high accuracy - gunshots, for example, or diesel engines for border patrol cros...The logic of life brings order to our genes
...cing a protein each gene is 'on' or 'off', to use language from the world of computers. A gene can affect other genes, turning them 'on' or 'off'. A simple case is that two genes are controlling a third gene. To activate this third gene, both the controlling genes might need to be active, or maybe only one o...Science and medicine - bridging the gap
...chers who understand pathophysiology and know the language and processes of medicine," said HHMI President Thomas R. Cech. "Our goal is to increase the pool of people who are doing medically oriented research." On December 1, 2004, the Institute will open a competition for grants for training programs that b...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
... of Action by demanding that previously negotiated language on reproductive health be redefined during UN-sponsored regional meetings. "The United States is chipping away its own legacy of enabling vulnerable women to build strong families. Even though it continues to be the largest bilateral donor to intern...Yerkes researchers discover baisis for determining handedness in chimpanzees
ATLANTA -- Hand preference and language go hand-in-hand, or do they? According to research... University, handedness is not associated with the language area of the brain, as has been the accepted scientific thought throughout history. Rather, handednes...Chimpanzee brains are asymmetrical in key areas and their handedness reflects it
...and emerged independent of systems associated with language and speech." The findings mesh with other re...ge-related dominance. To further understand language functions relative to brain asymmetries, the Yerkes team will soon begin using another brain-imaging......other than humans that actually learn their verbal language and have to be tutored." (The others are the cetaceans whales, dolphins and porpoises and perhaps bats.) The Bird Song Experiments The researchers first recorded songs from white-crowned sparrows in Utah's Wasatch Range. They digitized the reco...Children's Hospital Boston launches major genetic study of autism
...al deficit in autism), the development of specific language skills (also impaired in autism), and gross and fine motor function. Although not a formal part of the study, the data collected by MIT will be fed back into the Children's study and correlated with the genetic data....Mothers speak: Physicians often fall short when delivering a down syndrome diagnosis
...drome, the timing and setting of the news, and the language that was used -- physicians fell far short of making the birth a positive experience. The study was done by Brian Skotko, a student at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and supported by the Tim White Fu...New family of genes could serve as a potential cancer marker
...tool in trying to understand the errors of genetic language and the progression of cancer, therefore giving researchers possible new solutions to reversing this dreadful disease."...The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine 2005
...raits that are unique to humans such as speech and language faculties or other cognitive functions. He will in...e of these genes, FOXP2, is involved in speech and language development. To this end he will create transgenic mice that carry either the human or chimpanzee ve...Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter
...-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility. These two very different neurological pathways and activity centers, however, result in equivalent overall performance on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as those found on intelligence tests. The study also identified regional dif...A startling diary reveals the onset of autism
...uscript. The male twin "continues to struggle with language development, but is usually a happy child." The twins' mother has started a nation-wide organization that funds autism research....An evolutionary road less traveled
...y one." Linguistic studies suggest that the Mlabri language arose after speakers of a related language, probably Tin, split off and came into contact with another, as yet unknown language, an event that likely happened less than 1,000 years ago. The genetic and linguistic evidence indicates that the Mlabri ...Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once
...inated by noise, which in humans can affect normal language development, would cause glutamate to still be released. Finding such an association would be intriguing, but for now this remains just an hypothesis that will require much study, Dr. Gillespie said. The third author of the study is Gunsoo Kim, Ph....