http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/neurology http://jezebel.com/tag/neurology Four-year-old Krista and Tatiana Hogan are the only conjoined twins known to share a piece of brain tissue one of their doctors calls a "thalamic bridge." They seem to be able to feel one another drinking, to taste what the other is eating, even to see things only visible to the other twin. In many ways, they're also normal toddlers, but their case is so fascinating that it caused one psychologist to exclaim "OMG!!" This may be the first time a medical expert has been quoted using that phrase in the history of the Times. More »
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A new study concludes that social butterflies have more active amygdalas. Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau beg to differ. Or, they would, if they weren't hiding under dining room tables or in cabins in the woods. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5718466&view=rss&microfeed=true Another study for you: this one finds that birth control pills alter brain structure. Fun! More »
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I took my thirteen-year-old son and his friend to lunch today and, as a sexologist, it is my firm belief that this should entitle me to at least five continuing education credits from an accredited institution of higher sexological learning. More »
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"At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20" — Rita Montalcini, neurologist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine [AP, via World of Wonder] More »
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Neurologists say that girls process words differently than boys do, which may account for their superior language skills. According to today's Scientific American: "Girls completing a linguistic abilities task showed greater activity in brain areas implicated specifically in language encoding, which decipher information abstractly. Boys, on the other hand, showed a lot of activity in regions tied to visual and auditory functions, depending on the way the words were presented during the exercise." This data may affect how language is taught to boys and girls, because, as SA points out, the finding "implies that boys need to be taught language both visually (with a textbook) and orally (through a lecture) to get a full grasp of the subject, whereas a girl may be able to pick up the concepts by either method." [Scientific American] More »
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