The findings, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, offer an explanation for the neurological origin of a key social challenge in autism. They also provide clues as to the type of therapy that might help, according to the researchers. “Children typically learn to map certain sounds in people’s voices onto particular emotions,” says...
Tag: <span>Brain Wiring</span>
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Brain wiring linked to age, sex and cognition
by Bridget Kuehn, Cornell University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The degree to which the brain’s wiring aligns with its patterns of activity can vary with sex and age, and may be genetic, suggests a study published by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The study finds that this alignment may also have implications on cognition. The results...
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Stuttering Stems from Problems in Brain Wiring, Not Personalities
Lydia Denworth is a Brooklyn, N.Y.–based science writer, a contributing editor for Scientific American, and author of Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond (W. W. Norton, 2020). Credit: Nick Higgins Lee Reeves always wanted to be a veterinarian. When he was in high school in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, he went to an animal...