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Researchers show how autistic brains are different.
Scientists are learning more about the brains of people with autism and how they differ from those without.
Autism spectrum disorders are believed to be caused by a combination of genetics and the environment. As Professor Daniel Geschwind, from the University of California, Los Angeles, says “If you randomly pick 20 people with autism, the cause of each person’s disease will be unique.
But an examination of how genes and proteins interact in autistic people’s brains revealed there were shared patterns that could hold the answer to defining the origin of autism. Continue reading »
A new study out of Aberdeen Maternity Hospital found that women who were born early are more likely to go into early labor than women who were born full-term.
Researchers reviewed data from 22,343 pregnancies in Scotland that included 13,845 daughters born to 11,576 mothers over a 60 year time period. Defining preterm as births between 24 and 37 weeks and including only singleton births, researchers discovered that women who were preterm had a 60 percent increased risk of early labor. That risk went down to about 50 percent in pregnancies that followed.
What if your kid has the goods to be the next Michael Jordan or Roger Federer…would you want to know?
Men are primitive, or so goes the popular opinion. Thousands of books authored by men and women hinge on this notion. However; new research indicates males are the more “advanced” of the species.
There is far more to being a parent than genetics. Sure, there are animals where the male drops by, makes a deposit, and leaves the female to bear and raise the young on her own, but they’re, well, animals. Most of us, I think, see ourselves as being evolved past that. For humans, being a parent means caring for the child more than it means being genetically related. For that matter, other than in cases of medical issues, does genetics really matter?
After all the warnings that your kid’s running is going to make her knees hurt down the road, here’s a news flash: it may not be so bad after all.
Looks like conventional wisdom has been proven wrong once again. Continue reading »
Remember the case a couple months back about a family that lost their kids because they were obese, as was one of their children? The British child protection authority can and does remove kids from their families if the authorities believe the parents are overfeeding them.
It turns out that an extremely rare genetic condtion may lead to severe obesity. Continue reading »
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