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...shown that people with autism tend to have low levels of oxytocin, as well as hyperactivity in the amygdala, where most oxytocin receptors are located. The amygdala is also where memories are formed, and where our brains process and assign emotional meaning to sensory information - that is, where we turn perception (seeing someone smile) into "neuroception" (understanding the feeling of happiness that the smile reflects), says Stephen Porges, a psychologist at the University of Illinois in Chicago. So, misfirings in the amygdala, in tandem with low oxytocin, may help explain why people with autism have trouble distinguishing between happy expressions...
DIED. LEON AMES, 90, actor; in Corona del Mar, California. On big screen and small, Ames' warm voice and reassuring manner made him a favorite for roles requiring a paternal touch, from Judy Garland's indulgent turn-of-the century dad in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Kathleen Turner's mystical grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Ames' last screen role. In all, he appeared in more than 100 films. His television work also had a fatherly bent, as in the short-lived series Life with Father and Father of the Bride. His best- known TV role...
...some cotton towels for a change, so things were looking up. More important, the fighting that had claimed 18 American soldiers the week before had subsided. There were tentative signs of peace in the city, and Purvis found himself covering an elusive political story, remembering that the streets could turn deadly in a flash, as they had when four foreign journalists were killed last July. Bullet holes in the stucco wall behind his work desk remind Andrew that two weeks ago an American rescue team attempting to save trapped Rangers blasted rocket-fired grenades into the third floor, destroying...
Even the sturdiest reputations have a way of changing after the death of an artist. At the turn of the century Paderewski was considered a nonpareil concert pianist; in hindsight his slipshod technique and questionable musical taste consign him to a place among the keyboard's lesser lights. Perhaps it is too early to revise the conventional wisdom on Vladimir Horowitz, who up to his death in 1989 was widely regarded as the greatest pianist of the 20th century -- maybe of all time. Still, the release by Sony Classical of a 13-CD set of all the recordings Horowitz made...
...McCain, by contrast, stood firm - and alone. When asked about the war, he tried to turn the obvious political liability into a personal strength, a statement of character more than policy. "I would rather lose an election than lose a war," went his catchphrase. The strategy worked well in the primaries, among a mostly Republican electorate. But it did not give McCain the ability to escape the gravitational pull of the general election. Just a couple of months after winning the Republican nomination, McCain laid out his vision for a light at the end of the tunnel...