Links of Interest




TRANSCEND Research Program

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment : United Nation Report on the planet’s future, 2006

United Nations Report: Agroecology and the Right to Food: UN March, 2011 report on how we can double food production within 10 years while mitigating climate change and alleviating rural poverty

From ‘omics’ to complex disease: a systems biology approach to gene-enviironment interactions in cancer. by Sarah S Knox, Cancer Cell Int. 2010; 10:11.  This visionary synthesis is applicable to many other chronic modern illnesses in addition to cancer, including autism.

Animal products, diseases and drugs: a plea for better integration between agricultural sciences, human nutrition and human pharmacology. by Olav A Christophersen and Anna Haug. Lipids in health and Disease, 2011, volume 10:16.

21st Century Medicine: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice.  A White Paper from the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Special Autism issue of American Journal of Biochemistry and  Biotechnology, 2008, free online: http://www.scipub.org/scipub/detail_issue.php?V_No=173&j_id=ajbb.  Focus is on pathophysiology, oxidative stress, inflammation, and environmental impacts on physiology.

‘The Age of Extinction and The Emerging Environmental Health Movement’ by Michael Lerner – President, Commonweal

Collaborative on Health and the Environment

Scale of the universe

Eagle owl at 1000 frames per second flying toward a camera

Classic pivotal neuroanatomy article: Friedrich Sanides (1970), Functional architecture of motor and sensory cortices in primates in the light of a new concept of neocortex evolution. In The Primate Brai9n: Advances in Primatology, C.R. Noback and W. Montagna, eds., pp. 137-208.