Biology of the mind

Article Abstract:

Dr. Eric Kandel, a Columbia professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, earned a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on learning and memory. Kandel is a leading proponent of merging the fields of neuroscience and psychology and feels that the subsequent generations of Sigmund Freud have failed to make psychoanalysis a more rigorous, biologically based science.

Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Interview, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Kandel, Eric R.

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Big binky brouhaha

Article Abstract:

New studies by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) indicate that pacifiers may protect babies against sudden infant death syndrome and have advised parents to consider using the pacifier at naptime and bedtime. Not everybody agrees with AAP as Dr. Lawrence Gartner worries that pacifiers may interfere with breast-feeding, which has important health benefits for babies.

Psychological aspects, Parents, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Sudden infant death syndrome

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When does autism start?

Article Abstract:

Researches do not know what causes autism, a brain disorder, that affects 1 in 166 children, nor do they know how to treat the condition. In 2005, the National Institutes of Health would spend $99 million on autism research, which would involve efforts to detect the disorder in infants as young as 6 months.

Science & research, Research, Autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder

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