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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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People Likely Aren’t as Susceptible to False Memories as Researchers Thought
How much can we trust our memories? We know that our mind keeps an imperfect record of the past. We can forget or misremember details with frustrating consequences. Our attention can be diverted in ways
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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?
… In the years since the consensus statement was published, however, the evidence for each of these A.D.H.D. biomarkers has faltered. Attempts to replicate the studies that showed differences in brain electrical activity came up
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Four-Year-Olds Respond to Misinformation by Exercising Instinctive Skepticism Muscles
… A different and perhaps more inventive tack entails accepting the inevitability of children spending time online and prodding them to become their own fact-checkers. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, tested such an
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Typecasting Others and Self As Villain or Victim Can Hurt Relationships
This question from a patient may strike a chord with those who have felt wounded in relationship (which, of course, is all of us). When we feel hurt by others, our brains don’t simply process
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Transcendent Thinking May Boost Teen Brains
… These and a succession of other scholars, such as Richard Lerner of Tufts University, William Damon of Stanford and Kurt W. Fischer of Harvard, characterized adolescence as a period of emerging capacities for abstract
