Kevin Mitchell
I am a neurogeneticist interested in the genetics of brain wiring and its contribution to variation in human faculties. Author of INNATE (2018). kjmitchell.com
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
‘The Atlantic’ published this landmark document of the civil-rights movement in the August 1963 issue
Kevin Mitchell
Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” #KingLegacy theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… - I had never read this in its entirety before - it is astonishing in the force and clarity and rightness of its arguments
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Prospective, brain-wide labeling of neuronal subclasses with enhancer-driven AAVs
Labeling and perturbation of specific cell types in multicellular systems has transformed our ability to understand them. The rapid pace of cell type identification by new single-cell analysis methods has not been met with efficient access to these...
Ultra-rare genetic variation in the epilepsies: a whole-exome sequencing study of 17,606 individuals
Sequencing-based studies have identified novel risk genes for rare, severe epilepsies and revealed a role of rare deleterious variation in common epilepsies. To identify the shared and distinct ultra-rare genetic risk factors for rare and common...
China confirms gene-edited babies, blames scientist He Jiankui
Official Xinhua news agency says preliminary investigations revealed that scientist had acted on his own and forged review papers
DNA as a 'fortune teller'? There are firm limits to what genes can predict
Is our future written in our genes? King’s College London geneticist Robert Plomin, in his new book, Blueprint, presents DNA as a “fortune-teller” that is
Does testosterone impair mens' cognitive empathy? Evidence from two large-scale randomized controlled trials
The capacity to infer the mental states of others (known as cognitive empathy) is essential for social interactions, and a well-known theory proposes that it is negatively affected by intrauterine testosterone exposure. Furthermore, previous studies...
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Does testosterone impair mens' cognitive empathy? Evidence from two large-scale randomized controlled trials biorxiv.org/content/early/… (Spoiler: no) pic.twitter.com/t9vL4lgRYT
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3 Reasons Your Uncle Might Think Cold Days Disprove Global Warming
Here is why your uncle or grandmother might think a cold week disproves climate change.
Anti-Vaxxers Declared One of the Top 10 Threats to Public Health in 2019 as a Measles Outbreak Spreads Across Vancouver, Wash.
The Oregon Health Authority found that the number of kindergarteners seeking a non-medical vaccine exemption rose to 7.5 percent in 2018, the highest since new laws were passed to make obtaining the non-medical waivers more difficult in 2015.
Thalamus drives two complementary input strata of the neocortex in parallel
Sensory information enters the neocortex via thalamocortical axons that define the major 'input' layer 4. The same thalamocortical axons, however, additionally innervate the deep 'output' layers 5/6. How such bistratification impacts cortical...
Taking the right turn
Brain stiffness rapidly changes during development to help growing neurons wire correctly with each other.
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Kevin Mitchell
Genetics and Education: Recent developments in the context of an ugly history and an uncertain future osf.io/preprints/soca… - timely discussion of current and fast-approaching issues, by @daphmarts et al pic.twitter.com/7FddPjRYqy
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Breaking Down Academic Silos: An Example from a Historically-Burdened Field
By Daphne Martschenko In early December 2018, I was invited to present at the Polygenic Prediction and Its Application in the Social Sciences conference at the University of Southern California, ho…
Kevin Mitchell
Breaking Down Academic Silos: An Example from a Historically-Burdened Field cpgjcam.net/2019/01/11/bre… - thoughtful piece by @daphmarts on societal perception + potential impact of "sociogenomics"
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Threshold-Based Ordering of Sequential Actions during Drosophila Courtship
Goal-directed animal behaviors are typically composed of sequences of motor actions whose order and timing are critical for a successful outcome. Alth…
Breaking Down Academic Silos: An Example from a Historically-Burdened Field
I wrote a piece on breaking down #academic silos, particularly around #sensitive #bioethical work. That said, the points I raise apply to #academia in general – we have much we can learn from each …
Sex and gender in psychopathology: DSM-5 and beyond. - PubMed - NCBI
Psychol Bull. 2019 Jan 14. doi: 10.1037/bul0000183. [Epub ahead of print]