Possible balancer of neural excitation-inhibition?
Neurons in the central nervous system communicate with each other chemically through neural synapses. Neurons receive excitatory input from glutamatergic neurons and inhibitory input from...
View ArticleMirror, mirror, neuron, neuron
I’ve been meaning to post this for quite some time and, as I prepared for tomorrow’s class, I just now remembered it. For any (of my two) readers who are interested in the hypothesis about mirror...
View ArticleMirror neurons background
In Scientific American, Daniel Lametti wrote an article providing background research on mirror neurons and implications for future research. The article, “Mirroring Behavior: How mirror neurons let us...
View ArticleSleep predictors of later depression
Adolescents who are at risk for later episodes of major depressive disorders differ from their peers who are not at risk on multiple measures of rapid eye movement (REM) and...
View ArticleSelf- and other-referents in Autism
I’m going a little afield here, as this is not about children or youth. Still, I thought it might be interesting to a reader or two. Using images of the brains of adults with Autism and other adults...
View ArticleExcessive levels of calcium mark brains of individuals with Autism
Writing in Molecular Psychiatry, L. Palmieri of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Bari (Bari, IT) and colleagues reported the results...
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