Dr. Deane Waldman: “Accepted wisdom”
There is much “accepted wisdom” about healthcare that is just plain wrong. It prevents us from having a useful, fact-based discussion that leads to a true cure for sick Healthcare. In the book, I bust myths such as: all solutions for healthcare must come from Washington; the root cause of healthcare failure is greedy doctors, […]
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A new study by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers suggests that executive control differences in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of a unique approach, rather than an impairment.
Executive control difficulties are common in individuals with autism and are associated with challenges completing tasks and managing time. The study, published in
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, sought to tease out whether these difficulties represent a disruption in proactive executive control (engaged and maintained before a cognitively demanding event) or in reactive executive control (engaged as the event occurs).
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers took brain scans of 141 adolescents and young adults ages 12-22 (64 with autism, 77 neurotypical controls) enrolled in the Cognitive Control in Autism Study. During the scan, the participants completed a task that required them to adapt their behavior.
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Rotary: Jim Hall On 1965 Historic Civil Rights March
Rotary Club Of Los Alamos
“We still haven’t achieved our goal,” reflected local leader Jim Hall as he addressed the Rotary Club of Los Alamos March 2 via Zoom.
Hall spoke in commemoration of the 56th anniversary of the historic 1965 civil rights marches that led supporters from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery, the state capital.
Hall, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in Arlington, Texas, remarked that he has been “involved in civil rights since childhood.” By the time Hall was a college student at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., there was increasing concern that successful implementation of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin, would be jeopardized because it strengthened voting rights for African-Americans and desegregation of schools. It was a volatile subject, especially in Southern states and particularly in Alabama w