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...Once thought to be mainly a disease of the cerebellum - a region in the back of the brain that integrates sensory and motor activity, autism is increasingly seen as a pervasive problem with the way the brain is wired. The distribution of white matter, the nerve fibers that link diverse parts of the brain, is abnormal, but it's not clear how much is the cause and how much the result of autism...
...Sunday morning after he allegedly stole a pair of rubber gloves from an ambulance while a emergency medical technician (EMT) aided a sick student inside Currier House. The student, Thomas E. Rodger ’08 of Dunster House, was arrested and charged with breaking and entering into a motor vehicle with the intent to commit a felony and disorderly conduct, according to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman Steven G. Catalano. Rodger, 20, told The Crimson yesterday that his charges had been dismissed. “The whole thing was blown out of proportion,” he said...
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld Columbia Pictures 2 stars Barry Sonnenfeld’s (“Men in Black II”) family-adventure flick “R.V.” suggests that two things will happen to relatives who vacation in a motor home: they will bond in unforeseen ways, and they will constantly face complications involving fecal matter. “R.V.” depends largely on potty humor to elicit laughs, which is disappointing in light of its sharp comic cast featuring Robin Williams and Cheryl Hine (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm?...
...Vucic say they've developed a better way. Described in the American journal Muscle & Nerve, it involves 40-year-old technology called transcranial magnetic stimulation, which the pair have tailored for a new purpose. Held against a subject's head, a magnetic coil discharges a current that stimulates the motor cortex - the part of the brain that controls movement - causing an involuntary twitch in the subject's right hand...
...prospect of earlier diagnosis may be only one implication of the pair's findings. Assuming it's confirmed in subsequent trials, tracing the starting point of MND to the motor cortex is a step toward unlocking the mysteries of the disease. "We still don't know what the cause of MND is in the majority of cases," says Vucic. "We don't even know where the disease begins - whether it's in the brain, the spinal cord or the peripheral nerves. Our research, however, suggests it starts in the brain." The brain cells of the MND sufferer are primed...