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Your Mom Was Wrong: Horseplay Is An Important Part Of Development 
Researchers find a link between rough and tumble play and social competence.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Researchers find a link between rough and tumble play and social competence.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Research To Explore Genetic Causes Of Autism
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center and 10 other institutions will share a $10 million gift from James and Marilyn Simons of the Simons Foundation to create a databank of DNA samples from autism patients around the country. The goal is to collect a total of 3,000 samples from autism patients around the country to help identify different variants of autism and develop treatments.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center and 10 other institutions will share a $10 million gift from James and Marilyn Simons of the Simons Foundation to create a databank of DNA samples from autism patients around the country. The goal is to collect a total of 3,000 samples from autism patients around the country to help identify different variants of autism and develop treatments.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Elderly Spinal Cord Injuries Increase Five-fold In 30 Years, Neurosurgeons Find
Spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (70 and above) have increased five times in the past 30 years, as compared with younger spinal cord injury patients, researchers report. As the U.S. population ages, an estimated 20 percent of its population will be older than age 65 by the year 2040, and will likely impact spine surgeons and spinal cord rehabilitation centers as these patients become a larger proportion of the spinal cord injury population.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (70 and above) have increased five times in the past 30 years, as compared with younger spinal cord injury patients, researchers report. As the U.S. population ages, an estimated 20 percent of its population will be older than age 65 by the year 2040, and will likely impact spine surgeons and spinal cord rehabilitation centers as these patients become a larger proportion of the spinal cord injury population.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
New Reason To Hit The Gym: Fighting Memory Loss
Research has shown that people who exercise do better on memory tests. Now a new Columbia University Medical Center study explains specifically what exercise does within the brain. Exercise, the researchers found, targets a region of the brain within the hippocampus, known as the dentate gyrus, which underlies normal age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most adults.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Research has shown that people who exercise do better on memory tests. Now a new Columbia University Medical Center study explains specifically what exercise does within the brain. Exercise, the researchers found, targets a region of the brain within the hippocampus, known as the dentate gyrus, which underlies normal age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most adults.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Effective For Panic Disorder
Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
New Study Indicates Tanning May Be Addictive
Despite repeated health warnings about the dangers of tanning from sunlight and artificial light sources, there are still those whose mantra "bronzed is beautiful" remains unshaken. Dermatologists have long suspected that some people may be addicted to tanning -- similar to addictions to drugs or alcohol -- and refuse to alter their behaviors, even knowing they have an increased risk of developing skin cancer. Now, a new study of college co-eds indicates that some people may be addicted to ultraviolet (UV) light.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Despite repeated health warnings about the dangers of tanning from sunlight and artificial light sources, there are still those whose mantra "bronzed is beautiful" remains unshaken. Dermatologists have long suspected that some people may be addicted to tanning -- similar to addictions to drugs or alcohol -- and refuse to alter their behaviors, even knowing they have an increased risk of developing skin cancer. Now, a new study of college co-eds indicates that some people may be addicted to ultraviolet (UV) light.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Monkey See, Monkey Do? Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning
What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical activity, such as skiing or ballet? A new study from Brandeis University published this week in the Journal of Vision unravels some of the mysteries surrounding how we learn to do things like tie our shoes, feed ourselves or perform dazzling dance steps.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical activity, such as skiing or ballet? A new study from Brandeis University published this week in the Journal of Vision unravels some of the mysteries surrounding how we learn to do things like tie our shoes, feed ourselves or perform dazzling dance steps.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Severe Mental Retardation Gene Mutation Identified
Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis, according to an article to be published electronically on Tuesday, March 20, 2007, in the American Journal of Human Genetics.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Researchers have identified a novel gene mutation that causes X-linked mental retardation for which there was no previously known molecular diagnosis, according to an article to be published electronically on Tuesday, March 20, 2007, in the American Journal of Human Genetics.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
New Hope For Stroke Patients
If more than three hours pass between the time a patient experiences a stroke and when they arrive at the hospital, it is too late for the only FDA-approved treatment for acute stroke -- intravenous tPA, a clot-busting drug. Now a new device called the Merci Retriever -- a tiny corkscrew designed to physically remove the source of the stroke, a blood clot in the brain -- is giving hope to patients who arrive late.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
If more than three hours pass between the time a patient experiences a stroke and when they arrive at the hospital, it is too late for the only FDA-approved treatment for acute stroke -- intravenous tPA, a clot-busting drug. Now a new device called the Merci Retriever -- a tiny corkscrew designed to physically remove the source of the stroke, a blood clot in the brain -- is giving hope to patients who arrive late.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Surgeon Invents Teaching Technology For Scary Patient Exams
Pelvic and prostate exams provoke jitters for medical students. Carla Pugh, an assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern University, invented and patented a sensor technology in exam simulators to show students whether they have the right touch in these sensitive exams without a patient ever having to yell "Ouch!" Pugh has also invented teaching technologies for other difficult medical procedures. She was honored for being a trailblazer in a national museum.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18
Pelvic and prostate exams provoke jitters for medical students. Carla Pugh, an assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern University, invented and patented a sensor technology in exam simulators to show students whether they have the right touch in these sensitive exams without a patient ever having to yell "Ouch!" Pugh has also invented teaching technologies for other difficult medical procedures. She was honored for being a trailblazer in a national museum.ScienceDaily Headlines: Mind & Brain, 2007-03-26 04:03:18