Australasian Science - May 2016

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MAY 2016|| 3 CONTENTS 118 24 27 31 FEATURES 14 A Diet that Calms the Schizophrenic Mind The ketogenic diet favoured by bodybuild ...

4 | MAY 2016 CONTENTS 77 11 41 45 NEWS 6 Browse A round­up of science news from our shores. COLUMNS 5 Up Front Can a sugar tax s ...

Obesity Is Winning the Hunger Games Can a sugar tax save us if obesity has already permanently suppressed the satiety signals th ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest minutes of two exploding stars, and for the irst time seen a shockwave generated by a sta ...

A Pill toTreat Sugar Addiction Drugs used to treat nicotine addiction could be used to treat sugar addiction in animals, accordi ...

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MAY 2016|| 9 The irst large-scale study of ancientDNA from early American people has conirmed the devastating impact of European ...

10 | MAY 2016 Mecysmaucheniidae spiders, which live only in New Zealand and southern South America, are drab and tiny spiders th ...

MAY 2016|| 11 An Australian research team has designed a nanophotonic chip that can achieve unparalleled levels of control over ...

12 | MAY 2016 Where Have the Largest Whale Sharks Gone? Marine biologists have raised concerns about the whereabouts of the worl ...

MAY 2016|| 13 New Gecko Species A new species of fat-tailed gecko has been discovered by scientists in outback Queensland. Diplo ...

S chizophrenia has long been treated, with limited success, with drugs that block the brain neuro- transmitter dopamine. Pharmac ...

environmental events associated with schizophrenia, such as maternal virus infection and malnutrition as well as exposure to str ...

coma therapy to drive down circulating glucose in the hope that this would improve the symptoms of patients with a variety of me ...

hydrates, fatty acids are broken down to beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) and acetone in the liver. BHB travels easily to the brain, w ...

E yewitness misidentiication is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in theUnited States, having played a role in m ...

iller identiication. This is exactly what we found. At the lowest level of conidence, most identiications were of illers – as we ...

More importantly, we replicated our earlier analyses suggesting that accuracy increased with conidence. In partic- ular, we foun ...