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RFK, Jr., Says Tylenol Use for Circumcision Causes Autism. Here’s Why That Claim Is Flawed
Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link between autism and circumcision. “There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised
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The Rare Disease That Stops People From Feeling Fear
Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane and feeling nothing. No rush of adrenaline, or quickening heartbeat. … “In that situation, SM and other individuals with amygdala damage will go nose-to-nose with relatively unfamiliar experimenters, which
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Exposure to Bright Light Can Help Fend Off Winter Blues. The Time to Start Is Now
Our bodies can be quite sensitive to changes in daylight because we rely on it to regulate our circadian rhythms and our sleep-wake patterns. And because our internal body clocks don’t keep a perfect 24-hour cycle, the master clock
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Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
… All of this work hints that our interactions might be more harmonious if we were more in sync with one another. But evidence from a new technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) hyperscanning
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What We Know (And Don’t Know) About Autism, According to Science
… “Autism is not one condition,” said Geraldine Dawson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. “It is many different conditions with
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How Your Brain Constructs—And Sometimes Distorts—Your Experience of the World
You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination? Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us imagine it to
