Click Here to Read: Scholars Retract Another Study Linking Virus to Fatigue Syndrome By David Tuller in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.
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The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood
Click Here to Read: The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood By Natalie Angier in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.Today’s NY Times “Now We are Six” reviews recent work on latency.
This article emphasizes Ted Shapiro’s early classic, “Seven plus or minus one” cited in the recent review of the latency study by Franieck. Click Here to Read This Article
UCLA neuroscientists demonstrate crucial advances in ‘brain reading’
Depression and Mother’s Face
Click Here to Read: Can A Picture Of Your Mother Diagnose Depression?
By Jonah Lehrer on the Wired website on December 20, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Can Depression be Diagnosed by Response to Mother’s Face? A Personalized Attachment-Based Paradigm for Diagnostic fMRI by Xian Zhang1, Zimri S. Yaseen, Igor I. Galynker, Joy Hirsch & Arnold Winston3 on the PLOS website.
New Planets: Earth-Sized Kepler Exoplanets Discovered
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks
Click Here to Read: As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks By Justin Gilis in tbe New York Times on December 16, 2011.
Katey M. Walter Anthony, a scientist, investigated a plume of methane, a greenhouse gas, at an Alaskan lake. Dr. Walter Anthony is a leading researcher in studying the escape of methane
The search for the God particle goes beyond mere physics
Higgs Boson Search: CERN Releases New Data Said To Narrow Hunt For ‘God Particle’
Neuroscientists Close in on the Boundaries of Consciousness
Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats
Click Here to Read and View: A new model of empathy: the rat by David Brown in the Washington Post on December 8, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal1, Jean Decety1,2,4, Peggy Mason3,4 in Science in the December 9, 2011 issue, Vol. 334 no. 6061 pp. 1427-1430.