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What remains unclear is whether the interconnectivity problem is the result of autism or its cause. Perhaps all that excess wiring is like the extra blood vessels around the heart of a person who has suffered a heart attack - the body's attempt to route around a problem. Or perhaps the abnormal growth of the brain has to do with the immune system; researchers at Johns Hopkins have found signs that autistic brains have chronic inflammation. "It's impossible to tell the chicken from the egg at this point," Just says...
...placebo group, but only in periods of sleep that occurred during the volunteers' biological day--that is, when their bodies were not producing natural melatonin. During the sleep cycles that happened to fall at night in real time, when melatonin is already being released by the brain, taking an extra dose of the hormone worked no better than taking a placebo. "It seems that what melatonin is doing," says Wyatt, "is knocking out the wake-promoting drive, which normally happens during the day, from your circadian clock...
...story had been widely discussed and had been picked up by several other newspapers. A good number of Harvard students had already been thinking about the issue for a day, and we concluded we were not preempting their judgment of the case by imputing them with one. As an extra precaution, and in recognition of the sensitivity of the situation, we had the illustrator, who normally publishes under a pseudonym, attach her name to the cartoon.—William C. Marra, who is The Crimson’s president, can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu. E-mail...
...second varsity] had been walked through at Navy and we were not going to allow that to happen again,” Reid said. “And it’s championship season now. We’re always looking for that extra bit of speed.”—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...result], we didn’t race as we can and should have.”It was not a total disappointment for the lightweight squad, as the team only lost by that three-second margin while racing poorly. The defeat also gives Radcliffe extra motivation for Eastern Sprints in two weeks—it is a wake-up call to get the team re-focused.“Princeton raced really well, but that race is not indicative of the speed we can have,” Antony said. “The loss is a great motivating factor...