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Mindblind Eyes: An Absence Of Spontaneous Theory Of Mind In Asperger Syndrome
Highly intelligent adults with Asperger Syndrome still have difficulties in day-to-day social interaction. These difficulties may be explained by "mindblindness", the idea that they are unable to predict what other people will do by thinking about their mental states, that is, their knowledge and beliefs. If this is true then why do people with Asperger syndrome pass all the standard tests of mental state attribution? Is the theory wrong or are the tests insensitive? This study reports evidence from eye movements, that adults with Asperger Syndrome do not spontaneously anticipate another person"s behaviour on the basis of that person"s mental state. This is in stark contrast with typical adults, and even young toddlers.
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6 'Major Health Agencies' Form Alliance To Address Chronic Diseases In Developing Countries
A group of "major health agencies" from Australia, Canada, China, the U.K. and the U.S., which "together control 80 percent of the world"s public health-research funding," have joined together to form the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) to combat chronic diseases in developing countries, Time reports (Walsh, Time, 6/16). Purchase zoloft to treat depression.
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Foreign Aid Donors Should Prioritize Maternal Mortality In Developing Countries, NYT Opinion Piece Says
One of the "most lethal forms of sex discrimination" is the "systematic inattention to reproductive health care, from family planning to childbirth" in developing countries, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. According to Kristof, a woman dies every minute somewhere in the world from pregnancy or childbirth complications, and 20 times that number suffer childbirth injuries. Providers of foreign aid, including the U.S., "have never shown much interest in maternal mortality, and impoverished women are typically the most voiceless, neglected people in their own countries -- so they die at astonishing rates," Kristof writes.Kristof highlights the childbirth experience of a 19-year-old Pakistani woman named Shazia Allahdita whose infant died in childbirth after her relatives refused to take her to the hospital because they did not want to pay for the taxi fare. Kristof writes that "[i]f men had uteruses, "paternity wards" would get res, ambulances would transport pregnant men to hospitals free of charge, deliveries would be free, and the Group of Eight industrialized nations would make paternal mortality a top priority." Kristof notes that there is "the dawn of a global movement against maternal mortality," with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon working with the U.S. and other countries to plan a "landmark global health session" on Sept. 23. The session will focus, in part, on maternal health, which Kristof terms a "milestone." He concludes, "My dream is that Barack and Michelle Obama will leap forward and adopt this cause -- and transform the prospects for so many young women like Shazia" (Kristof, New York Times, 7/29).
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International Collaboration By Scientists Culminates In Novel Ion Channels Database

An important re consolidating understanding of the roles played by Ion channels in drug action is now available for scientists and students. The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) announce the publication of a new ion channels database, covering both the voltage-gated (VGIC) and ligand-gated (LGIC) ion channels. This represents a major addition to its existing mammalian receptor database, which is freely available here. The IUPHAR database, hosted by the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Edinburgh, is a carefully curated and authoritative re drawing together peer reviewed information about pharmacological, chemical, genetic, functional and patho-physiological properties of human, rat and mouse genes encoding in excess of 354 non sensory G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including orphan receptors, 71 LGIC and 141 VGIC subunits. This set of genes is known to encompass a third of current drug targets and a significant proportion of likely targets for the development of future medicines. In keeping with the database"s tradition, many leading research pharmacologists were closely involved in the data curation process, with Professors William A. Catterall (University of Washington) and George Gutman (University of California) taking leading roles for VGICs and Professors John A. Peters (The University of Dundee) and Richard Olsen (University of California, Los Angeles) for the LGICs. The IUPHAR database is a major online reference re and first-port-of-call for information about mammalian drug targets for students and scientists throughout the world, attracting approximately 2500 unique visitors to its website each week from 130 countries. In this current release of receptor families, IUPHAR provides detailed information for 8 VGIC and 3 LGIC families. Curation of the remaining five ion channel gene families is underway. The ion channel database is now available here. IUPHAR also remains committed to the ongoing update of the GPCR database which has been publicly available since 2005. GPCR pages updated in the current release are melanin-concentrating hormone, estrogen and P2Y receptors. Chido Mpamhanga University of Edinburgh


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