Daily Archives: November 13, 2012

Meditation : Changing the Emotional Brain – Implications for Autism ?

A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating. The researchers also found differences in those effects based on the … Continue reading

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More linkages between Autism and Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Gene Networks Found, and a Link to Autism Link to Press Release Although schizophrenia is highly genetic in origin, the genes involved in the disorder have been difficult to identify. In the past few years, researchers have implicated several … Continue reading

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