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Special Needs 4-Year-Old Leaves School
A 4-year-old boy with autism and mental retardation was able to make his way outside a Dallas elementary school Tuesday. A neighbor found him and called 911. -
'New law should ensure social security for mentally-challenged'
federation representing the parents of persons with mental retardation demanded here Thursday. -
Death Row inmate gets sentence commuted, then hangs himself
San Francisco Chronicle: "A 70-year-old inmate who was sentenced to death in 1989 for murdering a woman after breaking into her home in Calaveras County hanged himself in his cell at San Quentin State Prison over the weekend, less than a week after a judge commuted his sentence to life without parole because of mental retardation. ... The [prison] spokesman said he did not know whether Smithey ... -
Ohio's 18th District race: Democrat Zack Space fighting to defend seat against Republican Bob Gibbs
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Single Gene Major Influence in Brain Deformities
Brain deformities previously thought unrelated can now be traced back to mutations in a single gene critical for the development of the human cerebral cortex, report Yale researchers in the August 22 edition of the journal Nature. The findings show how one gene is responsible for regulating the production of cortical neurons, maintaining the journey of [...] -
'Pack the Track' walk at YHS next Thursday as part of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day
For the second year, Yerington High School students Amanda and Cassandra Blaine will lead a "Pack the Track" event at YHS as part of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day next Thursday, Sept. 9. -
ISWG researchers establish guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms
Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS). The goal of the ISWG is to improve patient outcomes by creating protocols that educate pediatricians on early diagnosis and treatment options. Full details of this study appear online in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley ... -
Emotional wreck? Blame the brain
Neuroscientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences have demonstrated in what is claimed to be a first such study that chemical imbalance in the brain, can cause severe emotional and pyschological disturbances. -
State School van involved in accident
A van from the Abilene State Supported Living Center has been involved in a two-vehicle accident on S. 27th Street and Treadaway Boulevard today, according to Abilene Police dispatch. -
This Week in Nature
In a paper published in the online advance of Nature Genetics this week, an international research team reports a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome . "We show that a relatively recent (>50 million years ago) genome-wide duplication has resulted in the transition from nine ancestral chromosomes to 17 chromosomes in the Pyreae," the authors write.
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