The world needs all kinds of minds (Temple Grandin)

Thinking & feeling

"Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think." Jill Bolte Taylor

I am reading Jill Bolte Taylor's book: My Stroke of Insight. She is a neuroanatomist who suffered a huge stroke in 1996.

This is post 45 of 100 posts in 100 days.

Genetic Link to Language Disorders Found

The New England Journal of Medicine today published an article about their research into a genetic link to certain types of language disorder.  They found that a particular gene was linked to a specific quite severe speech impairment, and suspected that other milder speech problems could be linked to problems with the same gene, even though the problems look very different initially.  They found this genetic marker often correlates with speech delays in autism.

The article is quite technical, but worth perservering with if you are interested in this area.