A recent Letter in the Journal Nature takes on the question of how stable is intelligence in teenagers. The title is pretty self explanatory: Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain. Consider teenagers. Is their IQ “set in stone”? By the time a kid is, say, 13, isn’t his/her intelligence pretty well demonstrated? [...]
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Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain
Monday, October 24th, 2011Get ready for the flood of fetal gene screening
Monday, February 21st, 2011In a recent article in Nature, Henry T. Greely, proposes that the time when prenatal genetic screening may be commonplace is closer than, well, I thought. The world’s news media was buzzing last week after researchers showed that a blood test for mothers could detect Down’s syndrome in their fetuses[1]. Last month, two research groups [...]
Interview with Stephen Scherer
Friday, June 11th, 2010Stephen Scherer is co-author on the recent paper ‘Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders‘. I caught up with him via email to ask a few questions: 1) What is the ‘bottom line’ message readers can take away from your work? I am always frustrated when I hear at the [...]
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