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- Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children
- Another reason to not mix work, family: Money makes parenting less meaningful, study suggests
- Geographic variation of human gut microbes tied to obesity
- Brain's 'sweet spot' for love found in neurological patient
- Fathers drinking: Also responsible for fetal disorders?
- Elevated brain aluminium, early onset Alzheimer's disease in an individual occupationally exposed to aluminium
- Long distance signals protect brain from viral infections entering through nose
| Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children Posted: 14 Feb 2014 05:39 PM PST Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children -- such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia. |
| Another reason to not mix work, family: Money makes parenting less meaningful, study suggests Posted: 14 Feb 2014 10:09 AM PST Money and parenting don't mix. That's according to new research that suggests that merely thinking about money diminishes the meaning people derive from parenting. The study is one among a growing number that identifies when, why, and how parenthood is associated with happiness or misery. |
| Geographic variation of human gut microbes tied to obesity Posted: 14 Feb 2014 10:09 AM PST Researchers know that obese people have a different balance of microbes in their guts: more Firmicutes, fewer Bacteroidetes. Now researchers have found that people living in northern latitudes have a greater proportion of the Firmicutes associated with obesity than do people living farther south, and a smaller proportion of Bacteroidetes. The implications are unclear, though microbes may evolve with people to better extract energy from food in colder climates. |
| Brain's 'sweet spot' for love found in neurological patient Posted: 14 Feb 2014 06:20 AM PST A region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, according to new research. The finding, made in an examination of a 48-year-old man who suffered a stroke, provides the first causal clinical evidence that an area of the brain called the anterior insula "plays an instrumental role in love," said neuroscientist Stephanie Cacioppo, lead author of the study. |
| Fathers drinking: Also responsible for fetal disorders? Posted: 14 Feb 2014 04:54 AM PST Maternal exposure to alcohol in-utero is a known risk and cause of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). FAS children suffer significant problems such as retarded intellect, stunted growth and nervous system abnormalities, social problems and isolation. Until now, fathers have not had a causal link to such disabilities. Ground breaking new research has been revealed which shows dads may have more accountability. |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2014 06:33 AM PST Research has shown for the first time that an individual who was exposed to aluminium at work and died of Alzheimer's disease had high levels of aluminium in the brain. While aluminium is a known neurotoxin and occupational exposure to aluminium has been implicated in neurological disease, including Alzheimer's disease, this finding is believed to be the first record of a direct link between Alzheimer's disease and elevated brain aluminium following occupational exposure to the metal. |
| Long distance signals protect brain from viral infections entering through nose Posted: 10 Feb 2014 01:18 PM PST The brain contains a defense system that prevents at least two unrelated viruses -- and possibly many more -- from invading the brain at large. |
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