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Music is said to have many virtues. Recently, it has been credited with improving intelligence and language, and altering brain structure. Here, I analyze the extent to which these phenomena of cognitive transfer and cerebral plasticity are compatible …

Understanding the mechanisms of microbial disease requires a variety of approaches. Traditional microbiologists have studied microbial pathogens, focusing in particular on disease-causing factors (virulence factors). Immunology and cell biology have …

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting 1% of the population. It begins before birth and produces cerebral and mental effects throughout life. It is defined by behavior. It is usually detected in early childhood. It presents different degrees of …

Music, and a fortiori musical emotions, are rarely considered as biologically constrained experiences. On the contrary, research over the last decade has shown that musical emotions have a universal basis and mobilize a set of neural circuits recognized …

The Avestic texts we know are almost all recitatives of various Mazdean ceremonies. Even so, our knowledge of Mazdean rituals is very limited. Modern editors of the Avesta have based the edited text on Pehlevi manuscripts. For the recitative of the long …