Click Here to Read : Study Links Enzyme to Autistic Behaviors on the Laboratory website on by Univ. of California, Riverside on July 24, 2014.

Iryna Ethell. Credit: L. Duka.

Click Here to Read:  Blind as a Bat: A Case of Mind vs. Body By George Johnson in The New York Times on July 21, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Spark for a Stagnant Search: A $650 Million Donation for Psychiatric Research By Carl Zimmer and Benedict Carey in The New York Times on July 21, 2014.

“You’re talking to a guy who went from psychotic to normal with some pills,” said Jonathan Stanley, who was found to have bipolar disorder in the 1980s. The donation of a foundation started by his father is one of the largest private gifts ever for scientific research. Credit Max Reed for The New York Times        

Click Here to Read: Experts Recommend a New Discipline Combining Neuroscience and Psychology by Sarah Thomas on the International Business Times website on July 21, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Five States Gunning to Make Their Kids as Scientifically Illiterate as Possible by Teaching Creationism By Dan Arel on the TruthOut website on July 18, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Neuroplasticity: New Clues to Just How Much the Adult Brain Can Change By Gary Stix in the Scientific American on July 14, 2014.

A boy with ambylopia exercises his weaker eye

Click Here to Read:  The universe according to Nietzsche: Modern cosmology and the theory of eternal recurrence. The philosopher’s musings on the nature of reality could have scientific basis, according to a prominent physicist by Paul Steinhardt on the Salon website on July 13, 2014.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Credit: AP/Salon)

Click Here to Read: The Trouble With Brain Science by Gary Marcus in The New York Times on July 11, 2014.

Click Here to Read:   The Brain: Researchers Make Huge Step Forward In Understanding How The Brain Processes Emotions by Lisa Winter on the IFL Science website on July 10, 2014.

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