Weekly AutismOne 30 Minute Global News in Review - 02/16/2011

Originally Aired Wed, 02/16/2011 - 12:00pm

Michael, Debra and Rob Sidell introduce and produce a very interesting show reviewing articles about how testosterone reduces empathy, the use of several new imaging technologies to map the brain's "connectome", difficulties with handwriting and small motor performance and how it may correlate with perceptual reasoning, the toxicicity of "ecologically friendly" LED lighting, the identification of "bone morphogenic protein 4" (BMP4) as key to the pruning process in brain development and the oddities of relationships among "friends" in 3rd - 6th graders.

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