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Prenatal Exposure to Antidepressants Makes Rats Show Signs of Autism Rats exposed to antidepressants just before and after birth show brain abnormalities and strange behaviors reminiscent of autism, a new study finds. www.foxnews.com 10/24/2011 IBM Supercomputer Simulates 4.5 Percent of Human Brain IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer can handle 4.5% percent of your brain's processes - and might have all of them covered by 2019. www.escapistmagazine.com 10/26/2011 Brain Scans Offer Peek Into...

Brains of autistic children grow much slower than their healthy peers Researchers at UCLA offer a possible explanation for why autistic children act and think differently than their peers. news.bioscholar.com 10/21/2011 Brain Structure Linked to Facebook The number of friends one has on Facebook correlates with the size of certain brain regions—and the number of friends made in real life. the-scientist.com 10/18/2011 Blood pressure drugs could halve risk...

Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language Scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and brains exposed to two. www.nytimes.com 10/10/2011 Mind-guided robotic arm lets paralyzed man touch girlfriend CBS News reports on a humanlike "neuroprosthesis" controlled by electrical signals from brain implants. www.cbsnews.com 10/10/2011 New Way to Gain a Clear View of the Brain Japanese neuroscientists have devised a way to...

Sure, aging is a fact of life, but who wouldn't welcome a dip in the fountain of youth? New research suggests young blood may be all we need to rejuvenate the brain. After joining the circulatory systems of two-year-old and three-month-old mice with a surgical technique known as parabiosis, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine observed remarkable changes in their brains. The old mice...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School found the shape of a certain protein to be different than they initially thought. Reporting on research published this week in Nature, The Scientist says the protein α-synuclein, previously thought to be a single, unfolded protein, may in fact be a helical tetramer. Which neurological disorder is this protein associated with? Select your answer below, then read the article in...

Take a set of skin cells, add four genes, wait four to five weeks, and you've got a batch of functioning neurons. Scientists at The Stanford University School of Medicine came up with this revolutionary recipe that uses transdifferentiation, a cellular reprogramming process that turns one type of cell directly into another, without first converting it into a pluripotent stem cell. Last year, the research team...

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Who: Clara R. Thore, Ph.D., Computer Imaging Specialist Where she works: The Microvascular Research Lab, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina Research focus: Microvascular changes in the brain in diseases of aging, such as vascular dementia, leukoaraiosis, and Alzheimer's disease. MBF Bioscience software used: Stereo Investigator Research methods at a glance: Dr. Thore and her fellow researchers have come a long...