by Elizabeth Preston in Inkfish
If you think house hunting is hard, consider the plight?of this snail. It lives only in tide pools in southern Japan. Within those tide pools, it only lives in holes?carved out of rock—specifically, holes dug?by sea urchins. But it can only move into one of those holes after?the hole-digging urchin has moved out. When?a second, differently shaped sea urchin moves into the hole, it?leaves a gap between its spiny body and the wall of the burrow. It's this nook that the snail snuggles int........ Read more »
Yamamori, L., & Kato, M. (2017) The macrobenthic community in intertidal sea urchin pits and an obligate inquilinism of a limpet-shaped trochid gastropod in the pits. Marine Biology, 164(3). DOI: 10.1007/s00227-017-3091-3
by Piter Boll in Earthling Nature
by Piter Kehoma Boll If you are walking through the forest of Central America, you may end up finding something that at first you could think is a group of bamboos, plants growing as a cylindrical segmented stem that can … Continue reading →... Read more »
Revilla, M., Andrade-Cetto, A., Islas, S., & Wiedenfeld, H. (2002) Hypoglycemic effect of Equisetum myriochaetum aerial parts on type 2 diabetic patients. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 81(1), 117-120. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(02)00053-3
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
"Compared with the general population, children with celiac disease had a 1.4-fold greater risk of future psychiatric disorders. Childhood celiac disease was identified as a risk factor for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, behavioral disorders, ADHD [attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder], ASD [autism spectrum disorder], and intellectual disability."So said the study findings reported by Agnieszka Butwicka and colleagues [1] who, yet again, relied on one of ........ Read more »
Butwicka A, Lichtenstein P, Frisén L, Almqvist C, Larsson H, & Ludvigsson JF. (2017) Celiac Disease Is Associated with Childhood Psychiatric Disorders: A Population-Based Study. The Journal of pediatrics. PMID: 28283256
by Craig Payne in Running Research Junkie
Anecdotes are not evidence... Read more »
Francis, P., Oddy, C., & Johnson, M. (2017) Reduction in Plantar Heel Pain and a Return to Sport After a Barefoot Running Intervention in a Female Triathlete With Plantar Fasciitis. International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training, 1-17. DOI: 10.1123/ijatt.2016-0072
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
Although a few details of the study reported by Shannon Lipscomb and colleagues [1] (open-access) interested me, I was particularly taken by their use of "a silicone passive wristband sampler [worn] around his/her wrist or ankle" to "assess the child’s exposure to flame retardants" as part of their investigation "to determine if flame retardant exposure was associated with measurable differences in social behaviors among children ages 3–5 years."I've covered the topic of potential adver........ Read more »
Lipscomb ST, McClelland MM, MacDonald M, Cardenas A, Anderson KA, & Kile ML. (2017) Cross-sectional study of social behaviors in preschool children and exposure to flame retardants. Environmental health : a global access science source, 16(1), 23. PMID: 28274271
by neuroecology in Neuroecology
As a neuroscientist, when I think of the retina I am trained to think of a precise set of neurons that functions like a machine, grinding out the visual basis of the world and sending it on to the brain.?It … Continue reading →... Read more »
Repérant J, Médina M, Ward R, Miceli D, Kenigfest NB, Rio JP, & Vesselkin NP. (2007) The evolution of the centrifugal visual system of vertebrates. A cladistic analysis and new hypotheses. Brain research reviews, 53(1), 161-97. PMID: 17059846
by Nicole Cattano in Sports Medicine Research (SMR): In the Lab & In the Field
Cross country runners who developed a running-related injury during a season had greater knee valgus and ankle eversion velocity before the season started compared with runners who remained injury free. ... Read more »
Dudley RI, Pamukoff DN, Lynn SK, Kersey RD, & Noffal GJ. (2017) A prospective comparison of lower extremity kinematics and kinetics between injured and non-injured collegiate cross country runners. Human Movement Science, 197-202. PMID: 28237655
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
I should have really titled this post 'another case report' given yesterday's entry on this blog talking about a case of [untreated] PKU and autistic behaviours/diagnosis. Here I am again talking about another N=1 with autism in mind and specifically the findings reported by Kim Siscoe & David Lohr [1] on how: "L-methylfolate supplementation improved symptoms of aggression and disruptive behavior in a child with autism who tested positive for the C677TT allele of the methyltetrahydrofolate r........ Read more »
Siscoe, K., & Lohr, W. (2017) L-Methylfolate supplementation in a child with autism and methyltetrahydrofolate reductase, enzyme gene C677TT allele. Psychiatric Genetics, 1. DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0000000000000170
by Miss Behavior in The Scorpion and the Frog
By Kayla FullerImagine this situation: you’ve brought your favorite lunch to work. Everyone is jealous of your food, continuously eyeing it up. A few coworkers, who have brought in disappointing lunches in comparison, approach and demand that you hand it over. After you refuse, they beat you until your body lies lifeless and they take your lunch anyway. Woah, woah, woah… that took a dramatic turn! Photo of a harbour porpoise, taken by AVampireTear (Wikimedia Commons)But for harbour porpoise........ Read more »
Ross, H., & Wilson, B. (1996) Violent Interactions between Bottlenose Dolphins and Harbour Porpoises. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 263(1368), 283-286. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1996.0043
Spitz, J., Rousseau, Y., & Ridoux, V. (2006) Diet overlap between harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin: An argument in favour of interference competition for food?. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 70(1-2), 259-270. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.04.020
by Elizabeth Preston in Inkfish
Newly hatched caterpillars look helpless: they're teensy, soft and juicy, with no parent around for protection. But certain young insects, the masked birch caterpillars, are more capable than they seem. They gather in groups to keep themselves safe. To form those?groups, they use a previously undiscovered language of buzzes, vibrations, head banging and butt scraping.
The species,?Drepana arcuata, passes through five caterpillar life stages (called instars) on its way to becoming a li... Read more »
Yadav, C., Guedes, R., Matheson, S., Timbers, T., & Yack, J. (2017) Invitation by vibration: recruitment to feeding shelters in social caterpillars. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(3). DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2280-x
by CESRA in Solar Radio Science
Flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are thought to result from magnetic energy release in the solar corona, often involving the destabilisation of a twisted magnetic structure known as a flux rope (Chen et al. 2011, Webb et al. 2012). This activity may be accompanied by the acceleration of electrons?(Kahler 2007, Lin et al. 2011). However, there is ongoing debate on exactly where, when and how this particle acceleration occurs [...]... Read more »
Carley, E., Vilmer, N., & Gallagher, P. (2016) RADIO DIAGNOSTICS OF ELECTRON ACCELERATION SITES DURING THE ERUPTION OF A FLUX ROPE IN THE SOLAR CORONA. The Astrophysical Journal, 833(1), 87. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/87
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
The case report from Betül Mazlum and colleagues [1] (open-access available here) illustrates once again that (a) the plural 'autisms' exist (see here) and (b) screening for inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) should be an important part of any autism assessment (see here). Indeed, screening for IEM should really be part of assessments for many different labels...Detailing a case report wherein a 3-year old child came to clinical attention for "speech delay and social problems", the authors ........ Read more »
Mazlum B, Anlar B, Kalkano?lu-Sivri HS, Karl?-O?uz K, ?zusta ?, & ünal F. (2016) A late-diagnosed phenylketonuria case presenting with autism spectrum disorder in early childhood. The Turkish journal of pediatrics, 58(3), 318-322. PMID: 28266201
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective | Press Releases
Research demonstrates the use of warm shower and perineal exercises with Swiss ball alone or combined during labor improves fetal well-being, stimulates uterine contractions, reduces labor time and accelerates progression to outcome in normal birth. … Read More →... Read more »
Barbieri, M., Henrique, A., Chors, F., Maia, N., & Gabrielloni, M. (2013) Banho quente de aspers?o, exercícios perineais com bola suí?a e dor no trabalho de parto. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 26(5), 478-484. DOI: 10.1590/S0103-21002013000500012
Benfield, R., Hortobagyi, T., Tanner, C., Swanson, M., Heitkemper, M., & Newton, E. (2010) The Effects of Hydrotherapy on Anxiety, Pain, Neuroendocrine Responses, and Contraction Dynamics During Labor. Biological Research For Nursing, 12(1), 28-36. DOI: 10.1177/1099800410361535
Gau, M., Chang, C., Tian, S., & Lin, K. (2011) Effects of birth ball exercise on pain and self-efficacy during childbirth: A randomised controlled trial in Taiwan. Midwifery, 27(6). DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2011.02.004
Henrique, A., Gabrielloni, M., Cavalcanti, A., Melo, P., & Barbieri, M. (2016) Hidroterapia e bola suí?a no trabalho de parto: ensaio clínico randomizado. Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 29(6), 686-692. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0194201600096
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
Back in 2015, I ran a three part post (1,2,3) on Dr Kenneth Blum and his claim to be able to treat what he calls "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" (RDS) with nutritional supplements.
Today my interest was drawn to a 2015 paper from Blum and colleagues, called Neuroquantum Theories of Psychiatric Genetics: Can Physical Forces Induce Epigenetic Influence on Future Genomes?.
In this paper, Blum et al. put forward some novel proposals about possible links between physics, epigenetics, and neuro... Read more »
Blum, K., Braverman, E., Waite, R., Archer, T., Thanos, P., Badgaiyan, R., Febo, M., Dushaj, K., Li, M., & Gold, M. (2015) Neuroquantum Theories of Psychiatric Genetics: Can Physical Forces Induce Epigenetic Influence on Future Genomes?. NeuroQuantology, 13(1). DOI: 10.14704/nq.2015.13.1.799
by William Yates, M.D. in Brain Posts
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a concept describing the ability to understand what another person is thinking or feeling.Today in my neuroscience medicine news review I ran across a novel, interesting and important research study targeting brain development in ToM.Normally developing children develop ToM around 4 years of age. In the study published in Nature Communications, a research team at the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied white matter development in 3 to 4 year old children.Using a serie........ Read more »
Grosse Wiesmann C, Schreiber J, Singer T, Steinbeis N, & Friederici AD. (2017) White matter maturation is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood. Nature communications, 14692. PMID: 28322222
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira in Being Multilingual
When we feel that we’re not feeling quite like ourselves, we may choose to consult a specialist in (un)well-being to find out what might be going on. Our decision will draw on what feeling well has felt like to us, which is our baseline for comparison. In order to decide that we’re unwell, in other words, we compare ourselves to ourselves.Children can’t make decisions of this kind on their own, so we adults will have to step in on their behalf. But who are ‘we’? We parents may resort t........ Read more »
Cruz-Ferreira, M. (2012) Sociolinguistic and cultural considerations when working with multilingual children. In S. McLeod . info:/
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira in Being Multilingual
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Schooling nurtures development of academic ways of talking about things. This has come to be called ‘education’, in the sense that an ‘educated’ person is able to use language in this way. Schooling teaches us how, why and with whom our languages can be used to acquire knowledge formally, about history, chemistry, or geography, things that not all of us will have encountered at home, by these or any other names. It also teaches us that knowledge, of these a........ Read more »
Duarte, J. (2011) Migrants’ educational success through innovation: The case of the Hamburg bilingual schools. International Review of Education, 57(5-6), 631-649. DOI: 10.1007/s11159-011-9251-7
by Paul Whiteley in Questioning Answers
"We have designed an Internet-of-Things (IoT) framework named WearSense that leverages the sensing capabilities of modern smartwatches to detect stereotypic behaviors in children with autism."So said the paper by Amir Mohammad Amiri and colleagues [1] (open-access available here) and, I have to say, something that really piqued my [research] attention. Describing how authors managed to design and construct a smartwatch with the ability to "detect three behaviors, including hand flapping, pa........ Read more »
Amiri AM, Peltier N, Goldberg C, Sun Y, Nathan A, Hiremath SV, & Mankodiya K. (2017) WearSense: Detecting Autism Stereotypic Behaviors through Smartwatches. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 5(1). PMID: 28264474
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira in Being Multilingual
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Norms of conduct, including linguistic norms, are social constructs. They vary in space and time, and they can be of two types. Descriptive norms draw on observation and tell us what people do, for example that interrupting your conversation partners is common in parts of southern Europe (which can be a sign of polite engagement in the exchange), or that fermented herring is a delicacy in parts of northern Europe (which can be a sign of Nordic stoicism). Prescripti........ Read more »
Cruz-Ferreira, M. (2011) First language acquisition and teaching. AILA Review, 78-87. DOI: 10.1075/aila.24.06cru
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira in Being Multilingual
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Wanting to learn a language doesn’t always result in learning the language that we want. This is so even when the language that we want to learn and the one that we end up learning go by the same name – let’s call it X. One reason for this is that most language teaching proceeds through what we’ve come to identify as the language’s holy writ, namely, the X textbook. A textbook is a book. Like all books, it uses printed modes of language, with two consequ........ Read more »
Forman, R. (2014) How local teachers respond to the culture and language of a global English as a Foreign Language textbook. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 27(1), 72-88. DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2013.868473
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