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Williams Syndrome is named after a New Zealand cardiologist who, in 1956, described a series of patients with very similar distinctive physical and intellectual characteristics. It is a rare congenital disorder caused by the deletion of elastin and approximately twenty other genes on chromosome #7, and is characterized [...]
Johns Hopkins sociologist Karl Alexander
Johns Hopkins sociologist Karl Alexander and his colleagues tracked the academic progress of nearly 800 Baltimore students from first grade until age 22.
They found that 65 percent of the achievement gap between poor ninth-graders and their more advantaged peers was due to wasted summers that lacked stimulation and learning.
Forty percent of [...]
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People may think small kids don’t generally get as sick as grown-ups. But new research shows that when bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is involved, the exact opposite is true.
The little children that we see have the most severe form of the illness,” says Dr. Barbara Geller, one of [...]
He may never steal home, but he never quits trying.
ReThink IT is a video with a message that is important to all Americans and a message that is especially important to our next President.
We hope this “IT” video will be forwarded to millions of people around the world who don’t even know they are losing their minds.
106 Million people worldwide by 2050 are expected [...]