Hidden scars: sexual and other abuse may alter a brain region

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Brain researchers using magnetic resonance imaging equipment have found that the hippocampi in people who suffered abuse during childhood are smaller than normal. The research points to a possible physiological basis for post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative disorders.

Research, Physiological aspects, Hippocampus (Brain), Dissociation (Psychology), Dissociative disorders, Adult child abuse victims

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Strings and gluons - the seer saw them all

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Tokyo-born physicist Yoichiro Nambu has earned a reputation for prescience among his colleagues in theoretical physics, because he predicted such phenomena as the existence of gluons. Nambu's current research focus is on the mass of quarks.

Physicists, Nambu, Yoichiro

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Profile: Gursaran Prasad Talwar

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Talwar may be the top scientist from a developing country. As founder of India's world-class National Institute of Immunology, Talwar's research has led to the development of a male contraceptive vaccine and a vaccine against leprosy.

Interview, Scientists, Talwar, Gursaran Prasad

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