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...part to measure. "But when one thing changes, all the others change to some degree," says Bruce McEwen, a neuroendocrinologist at Rockefeller University who has spent decades studying the biology of stress, primarily in animals. So just because you see an imbalance in one area doesn't mean you understand why it is happening. "We're learning that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), burnout, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are all related in some ways," McEwen says. The next step is to figure out if there are any genetic predispositions that tip the response to stress toward...
...autistic children, compared with other children, showed depressed activity in their premotor cortex while imitating or observing facial expressions--and the more severe the autism, the more depressed the activity was. The results did not surprise Dapretto. A central problem in autism, after all, is an impaired ability to understand the feelings of others, and it seems plausible, if far from proven, that a deficiency in the mirror-neuron system could be involved...
...mom’s motives, and those of Josh Smith’s parents, are fairly easy to understand. With their pride and joy off at Harvard, that ivy-encrusted boot camp for America’s liberal elite, the least they can possibly do is try to get a word in edgewise. It’s a political umbilical cord that connects to a totally different universe, and growing up being the way it is, it’s hard not to be a little peeved at the insistence with which the unwelcome manifestos keep on coming...
...It’s our job to understand their motives, and to appreciate that the separation anxiety that runs just beneath the surface of our interactions is very real on both sides. To a parent, seeing your child’s politics change while they’re away from home and out of your grasp has got to be agonizing. It’s a little more change, a little more distance. That can’t be easy to watch...
...Meanwhile, it’s up to our parents to understand that our assertiveness isn’t just petulant immaturity. We’re capable of making our own judgments when it comes to politics, and we ought to be trusted to manage our own opinions. And our inboxes...