A Mutation that Lowers Risk for Schizophrenia?
Last month, Rees et al. (2014) reported that, in contrast to copy number variant (CNV) deletions at the genetic locus, 22q11, which increase schizophrenia risk, duplications in that same region […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
The Prion Hypothesis: How Proteins May Create Heritable Memory
“How a genotype and its environment interact to yield a phenotype poses a vast epistemological gap. Proteins that exhibit conformational diversity and contingent functional multiplicity increase the dimensions of phenotypic […]
A New Study Reports that Oxytocin-mediated GABA Inhibition in Mouse Models of Autism Reduces Symptom Severity
In a study published this month in the journal, Science, Tyzio et al. (2014) report some exciting findings which help fill in some of the gaps on oxytocin research in […]
The Fragile X Spectrum of Conditions
I’ve talked about Fragile X Syndrome before and its relationship to autism, albeit briefly. What I didn’t touch on, however, is that Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) isn’t the only condition […]
Science Over a Cuppa 
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