Dana Smith
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Solitary confinement may cause ‘irreversible’ damage to the brain
There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells ...
Brains of fetuses could suffer from exposure to marijuana
Marijuana has been legalized in some capacity in 31 U.S. states, in large part due to a softening stance around ...
Autism linked to electrical firing of neurons, neuron-controlled brain size
Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a new genetic model of autism, using neurons created in the lab from ...
‘Dark genome’ could yield answers to complex genetic diseases
The mysterious majority – as much as 98 percent – of our DNA do not code for proteins. Much of ...