George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …
Behavioural conditions / autism
Brain antics
Have you read 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'? If you haven't, and you are at all interested in the human brain and the extraordinary knots into which it can tie itself, then you certainly should. 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' is probably the best known, …
I’ve got a stat for you by Andrew Edwards
If you want to understand how autistic people think, don't read books about them, read books by them. My first, and totally eye-opening experience was when we were investigating the use of the gluten and casein-free diet for autistic spectrum disorders and I read 'Freaks, …
What electronic media can do to your brain – and to the rest of you!
Our brains are the most adaptive organs in our bodies so constant repetition will change the way that they work. And that constant repetition applies not only to learning to play an instrument but to playing computer games. The difference is that each interaction we get from …
Public health – some movement?
Two events last week might just bestir the powers that are into action. Although the rhetoric so far on the proposed tax on sugar-laden soft drinks is not encouraging. Specifically on sugar, a new study was published this week suggesting that, despite the protestations of the …