News & Opinion
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11 February 2011Comments ( 0 )Children with autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are both more motivated by money than by praise, according to a study published in January in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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10 February 2011Comments ( 0 )A genome-wide association study has identified risk factors for Asperger syndrome, some of which overlap with chromosomal regions implicated in autism, according to a study in the December issue of Autism Research.
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9 February 2011Comments ( 0 )Four years after scientists devised a way to paint individual mouse neurons in different colors, two independent groups have adapted the technique for use in the fruit fly. Both papers, replete with stunning images of fly neurons, appeared 6 February in Nature Methods.
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9 February 2011Comments ( 1 )Men with fragile X syndrome have larger brains overall than controls do, but less matter in regions involved in language and social interaction.
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8 February 2011Comments ( 0 )The National Institutes of Health is adding a new $1 billion institute for early-stage drug development. But the agency’s plan to fund it by closing the National Center for Research Resources is causing some consternation.
