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Onset & Symptoms: Personality changes Treatments: Nothing known to slow or stop the decline Prevalence: 1 in 20,000 people Famous People with the Disease: Woody Guthrie Heritability & Environmental Factors: Caused by a dominant allele Individuals with Huntington’s Disease have one dominant Huntington’s allele and one normal allele. It is [...] Onset & Symtoms: Mental retardation Treatments: Specialized low-phenylalanine diet Prevalence: 1 in 10,000 people Famous People with the Disease: Unknown Heritability & Environmental Factors: Caused by a recessive allele PKU is caused by a recessive allele, meaning an individual must inherit two copies of the allele, one from each parent, in order [...] This research sheds a whole new light on the autism spectrum disorder. Hopefully, we will be able to gain a broader understanding and appreciation for the inner life of a person with autism, and be able to help them. How the autistic brain distinguishes oneself from others. You will never think of the word “sniffer” in the same way again. Ok, you might, but still an interesting article that sheds light on some of the inner workings of the brain. New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain. This article has some interesting information related to brain size vs. function and capacity. Check it out to see if your puny human brain can compete. Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains.
Carl Rogers was born in January of 1902 in Oak Park, IL, and died in February of 1987 in La Jolla, CA. He is known for his contributions to the field of Humanistic Psychology. Rogers emphasized existentialism and self-actualization, [...] Disruption Of Circadian Rhythms Affects Both Brain And Body, Mouse Study Finds. It’s 2 am and I can’t sleep. What better way to spend this time than to figure out how this sleeplessness is going to mess me up worse than I already am? According to this research, if I continue to miss out on sleep [...] The New Science of Temptation: Scientific American. Have you ever wondered what your capacity really is to resist temptation? Do we really resist temptation at all? New research suggests that those who appear to “resist temptation” may not be resisting anything at all. Believe it or not, some people are born good (or perhaps it was [...] Karen Horney was born in 1885 in Blankenese, Germany, and died in 1952 in New York, NY. Early in her career Horney was a classical Freudian theorist, but she soon rejected the factors of personality based on the gratification of sexual drives. She tried to go beyond classical analysis to find motives for human behavior. [...] |
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