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Such alertness may not seem like a bad thing, except that in a second paper in the same issue of Science, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin found that sleep appears to function as a critical shutoff valve for the fruit-fly brain. After a period of sleep, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Is Sleep? New Lessons from the Fruit Fly | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Many scientists believe we're simply diagnosing autism differently now - both overdiagnosing it in kids who don't have it and spotting it better in kids who do. That makes it look like the condition is on the rise when it's not. All you have to do is find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

You write in your book that when your son began to emerge from the worst of his autism he said that having the condition felt like being buried alive. What's the most important thing a parent can do to help draw a child out? Just remember that there is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

When, for instance, does a urinary-tract infection become a pyelonephritis (an infection involving the kidneys and ureters)? There's no clear-cut answer. A computer might remind the doctor that the hospital stands to make many thousands more if he simply clicks on pyelonephritis, the more serious condition. Or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Prescription | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

When I asked Rapport whether there's a cure other than breaking down instructions, his answer was a bit depressing: no. ADHD is incurable. Drugs like Ritalin are a common answer for controlling the condition, which affects about 3% to 5% of children, but Rapport notes that they have proven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids with ADHD May Learn Better by Fidgeting | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

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