Parvalbumin and autism: different causes, same effect?

Parvalbumin and autism: different causes, same effect?

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are multifactorial conditions, with obvious genetic, epigenetic and/or environmental risk factors implicated in the disease etiology. Identification of several gene mutations in human ASD and rodent models carrying mutations in the same candidate genes recapitulating the behavioral core symptoms of ASD -namely lack of social interaction, impaired communication an...

Definition and Different Causes of Shock

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What causes autism ?

Same Programme, Different Students: Same or Different Self-efficacy Effects?

Objectives and Prior Work The relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions, opportunity recognition and career persistence is well established in the entrepreneurship literature. In addition to being a predictor of entrepreneurial behaviour, an individual's level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) has repeatedly been shown to have a lasting legacy on venture growth and ...

Dual Theories: ‘Same But Different’ or ‘Different But Same’?

I argue that, under the glitz, dual theories are examples of theoretically equivalent descriptions of the same underlying physical content: I distinguish them from cases of genuine underdetermination on the grounds that there is no real incompatibility involved between the descriptions. The incompatibility is at the level of unphysical structure. I argue that dual pairs are in fact very strongl...