The human capacity for language would not have given us any adaptive ecological advantage if it did not primarily serve the purpose of improving our ability to understand, trust, and rely on each other. A frame of collaborative niche construction allows us to contribute to rather than extract fr...
Autism is a pervasive development disorder (PDD), a group of illnesses that involve delays in the development of many basic skills, most notably the ability to socialize or form relationships with others, as well as the ability to communicate and to use imagination (including fantasy play). Chi...
That “good people do nothing” is a documented component of many categories of traumatic experience, whether the trauma is wartime atrocity, political captivity, torture, etc. According to many trauma experts, the very depth of psychic injury in trauma often hinges on the existence of inactive o...
The autism spectrum, often referred to as just autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or sometimes autism spectrum condition (ASC), identifies a loosely defined cluster of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by challenges in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and often repetitiv...
fast, and mine can even tell when I’m notthinkingabout him, and when I am. When he was small and I was looking at him but not thinking about him, he would always do something to snap me back to attention – it was a psychic choke chain that quite probably kept both of us alive...
Caco-2 cells have been used to study the bioavail- ability of micronutrients in the past45–47 and are a suitable model to study the mechanistic aspects of zinc uptake. Further, Caco-2 cells express SHANK3, ZIP2 and ZIP4. Knockdown of SHANK3, which results in approx. 50% reduction of...
“The literature reports that most individuals with ASD respond positively to music. People with ASD often show a heightened interest and response to music, making it an excellent therapeutic tool for working with them.” This reminds me of the Psychic Network infomercials of a few years ago: ...
It doesn't matter if you're a healthy kid when you walk in there -- spend a few hours deprived of sleep, food, and the ability to use the restroom while adults call you fat. You'll walk out with a condition. http://www.cracked.com/article_20843_6-shocking-realities-secret-trou...
You can’t test people’s inner psychic states. So, if that is ever important to some activity, you can’t test that activity. So, if a medicine works because of a combination between placebo and real effect, you can’t design an experiment to deal with it. Tristan says: 2009-02-15...