Marco Iacoboni, a lab director at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, says when people see a smile, so-called mirror neurons fire in their brain and evoke a similar neural response as if they were smiling themselves.

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The Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis is mapping nutritional interventions by genetic make-up.

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The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.

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Perhaps the most striking moment of the symposium came when Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center revealed the results of an approach he has developed, called auditory-motor mapping training, using pitch and rhythm to heal autistic children who are incapable of speaking.

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The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.

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In the seemingly infinite galaxy of philanthropy, the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala sparkled brightly on Friday night, not only honoring chess legend Garry Kasparov, brain-mapping scientist Dr. Cori Bargmann and entrepreneur Richard Branson, but with stratospherically smart award presenters like James Watson, best known for his co-discovery of DNA, election predictor Nate Silver and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

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