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Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment

April 29, 2013

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Fighting the scourge of mental illness means giving psychiatry the kind of boost that physics got from the Higgs hunt by Nick Craddock (….) Recently, some colleagues and I launched a report, Strengthening Academic Psychiatry in the UK, and found ourselves justifying how psychiatry had acquired – and was still struggling to shrug off – […]

Babies are born with ‘intuitive physics’ knowledge, researcher says

January 24, 2012

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While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of “intuitive physics.” “In the MU Developmental Cognition Lab, we study infant knowledge of the world by measuring a child’s gaze when presented with […]