Haunted By The Voices

 

Click here to read “Haunted by the voices” by Cathy Saunders from The West Australian on August 23, 2012.

Sir Anthony Hopkins heard them. So did Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc and Socrates. These well-known identities have all reported hearing voices – a phenomenon which is reasonably common, with 4-10 per cent of the population admitting to it.

Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia

 

Click here to read “Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia” by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on August 22, 2012.

Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The age of mothers had no bearing on the risk for these disorders, the study found.