Category: Genetics
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Maths, genes, anxiety, silence.
A new study of math anxiety shows how some people may be at greater risk to fear math not only because of negative experiences, but also because of genetic risks related to both general anxiety and math skills. The results don't mean that math anxiety can be blamed solely or even mostly on genetic factors,…
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Live and let DIE you small hypocrite...
People in the "brainy circles" of our hypocritical society talk about diversity. But how much are differences really valued? “I wonder”, a mother of a child with Down's Syndrome writes, “whether my friends and colleagues would recognize the value of a child who was slower, less capable and more dependent”... (1) Love is hard to…
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Disease, definitions, change...
People who carry a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease show changes in their brains beginning in childhood, decades before the illness appears, new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests. (1) When does a change start? When does a disease begin? Arbitrary definitions, haunting our lives... Being ill all the time.…
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Brain, body, DNA, "uniqueness"...
It was once thought that each cell in a person's body possesses the same DNA code and that the particular way the genome is read imparts cell function and defines the individual. For many cell types in our bodies, however, that is an oversimplification. Studies of neuronal genomes published in the past decade have turned…
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Down's Syndrome to University and Music... What a failure!
The 1st university graduate with Down's Syndrome. (1) And what about the case of a music maestro with Down's Syndrome?! Now THIS is an exception worth noting! (2, 3) These must be the largest failures of modern science ever! How did those kids got away from our fail-proof genetic tests?
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