Individuals who carry an extra copy of the genetic region missing in those with Williams syndrome have language impairments and other autism-like social difficulties, according to a wave of new research on this duplication syndrome.
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Looking more like playtime than therapy, an intervention called the Early Start Denver Model boosted the IQ scores and language skills of children with autism in a rare rigorous test of autism treatment.
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Studying what comes out of the mouth can tell us a lot about what is going on in the brain, particularly in rare cases of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
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The bones, arrowheads, and DNA all agree: Our North American continent was first peopled by immigrants from north Asia over 10,000 years ago. Now linguist Edward Vajda has found remnants of this ancient heritage in words spoken today.
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