MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'foxp2'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984961&cid=t_132465_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F11%2Ffoxp2-in-nature.php Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2:...It has been proposed that the amino acid composition in the human variant of FOXP2 has undergone accelerated evolution, and this two-amino-acid change occurred around the time of language emergence in humans...However, this remains controversial, and whether the acquisition of these amino acids in human FOXP2 has any functional consequence in human neurons remains untested. Here we demonstrate that these two human-specific amino acids alter FOXP2 function by conferring differential transcriptional regulation in vitro. We extend these observations in vivo to human and chimpanzee brain, and use network analysis to identify novel relationships among the differentially expressed genes. These data provide experimenta... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984961 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:08:00 +0100 2984961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=970072&cid=t_132465_132_f&fid=35028&url=http%3A%2F%2Flurena.vox.com%2Flibrary%2Fpost%2Fmore-neanderthal-news-foxp2-and-language.html%3F_c%3Dfeed-rss I've got a lot of curiosity when it comes to history and the history of the human species, so stories that pop up about Neanderthals always arouse my interest. Previously I have posted about the great likelihood that humans and Neanderthals lived ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend (Source: Systems Biology & Bioinformatics) Systems Biology & Bioinformatics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=970072 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:52:57 +0100 970072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966704&cid=t_132465_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F10%2F21%2Fare-we-really-that-unique.html By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DThe question of what makes us "human" has occupied philisophers since  Aristotle. And the well worn, but profound statement of 17th century French philosopher Descartes "I think therefore I am" or in Latin "cogito ergo sum" (he actually wrote it if French: "Je pense, donc je suis"), has formed the basis for modern Western philosophy to this day. Today, thinking is one of the basic traits attributed to being human. And one of the of the pillars of thinking is language and speech, the ability to express our thoughts. From here, it is only a logical skip and hop to the assumption that Homo sapiens' uniqueness resides in its aqcuisition of the capacity for speech. In fact, molecular biologists discovered that a... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966704 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:53:33 +0100 966704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=923751&cid=t_132465_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F164558565%2F Is language (like tying knots) unique to humans—is being able to talk and think in language part of being human? I might have answered this question with an “of course” in what seems like another life now, a life I lived before I became the mother of a boy with minimal language. My husband Jim and I are both very verbal—big (and rather fast) talkers and early, self-taught readers. Charlie, now 10 and some months, has more to say with each day. I refer frequently to music here as it seems more and more to be a “language”—a mode—-that channels communication among the three of us. Learning to read has been a process of many years for Charlie (in the past year and a half, he has slowly memorized not quite 30 nouns on flashcards), whereas he has ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=923751 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:05:57 +0100 923751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740421&cid=t_132465_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F17%2Fhiking-in-the-pyrenees.html By Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.DWe are on vacation in the Pyrenees.  It could also be called God’s Country—it doesn’t really matter which god, just a deity of some kind to whom you attribute the creation of beautiful things. As I walk up the trail leading to the awesome north face of the VigneMale mountain, my thoughts wander 15,000 years back. It was in this region, after all, that the last colonies of Neanderthals survived the great extinction that befell them as our species, Homo sapiens, spread across Europe. In a word, the Neanderthals were our distant cousins. About a million years ago our ancestral species, Homo erectus, migrated out of Africa and colonized most of the world. Amazing, coming to think of it, considering their primitive brain, their only ‘re... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740421 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:54:39 +0100 740421