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How Is Physical Human Development Unique - Articles
A GPS for the Developing Human Brain
by
Kev Leitch

Posted
Wed 23 Mar 2011 8:19pm
In his Director’s Blog, Tom Insel of NIMH has a piece “ A GPS for the Developing Human Brain “. I found the piece very interesting in terms of mapping gene expression within the brain and how expression varies across the brain and across development. Given that this is a government publication, I feel that it is appropriate to copy it in t ...
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ASD as a Developmental Disorder - A Suggested Neurological Underpinning
by
Ian P.
Posted
Sat 16 Jun 2007 10:00pm
(This post is available in MS Word. To request a copy, please e-mail me - see sidebar for address.)
In a previous post – Autism, Genius, and Minicolumns – I wrote about a research paper by Dr Casanova et al comparing the brains of three prominent neuroscientists vs. controls. One of the findings in this paper was a similarity (and differences ...
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Development of the Human Infant Intestinal Microbiota
by
Leslie M.
Posted
Thu 19 Feb 2009 6:31pm
Author Summary
It has been recognized for nearly a century that human beings are inhabited by a remarkably dense and diverse microbial ecosystem, yet we are only just beginning to understand and appreciate the many roles that these microbes play in human health and development. Knowing the composition of this ecosystem is a crucial step ...
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Poverty issues transcend politics; health, human development take the hit
by
UABNews
Posted
Wed 21 Sep 2011 2:48pm
Politicians in Washington are warming up election-year rhetoric early, hotly arguing either side of debt reduction, jobs creation and the "T" word.
But in the growing shadow of the looming election year, 17.3% of Alabamians live in poverty. That's not a political issue, says one UAB researcher, it's a lives issue.
“The ramifications of ...
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