Karen Pierce

He really deserves our respect, the world, and Syria in particula... by Karen Pierce

He really deserves our respect, the world, and Syria in particular, is poorer for his loss.

This opens up really unprecedented opportunity to get them into early treatment -- potentially early intensive treatment -- and then check to see what kind of impact this is having by the time they reach school age, the brain is very plastic during early development and can be impacted by input from the environment.

The brain is very plastic during early development and can be impacted by input from the environment, the frontal cortex in particular -- the part of the brain essential for the development of social skills -- is making large numbers of connections between brain cells across the first two years of life.

We have a new grant out that's under review right now to see if we can call all these kids back from the JAMA Pediatrics paper when they get to school age, and test them all over again to see what their outcomes are, because it's really vital -- that's the whole point of doing all this.