Spirituality in Children
It is interesting that in talking to autistic individuals their concept of religion is usually enmeshed within previous sensory experiences of the scratchy clothes they had to wear in church […]
Category Archives: autism
Temple Grandin Talks About Autism and Sensory Issues
I finished reading the latest book by Temple Grandin and though of doing a book review on the same. I bought the book from Amazon for $9.23. The paperbound edition […]
Jonathan Mitchell on NeuroTribes
The following is an opinion piece by one of our readers, Jonathan Mitchell. In this blog Jonathan reviews Steve Silberman’s recently published book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the […]
Abnormalities in the size of cortical modules in autism: are they wider or narrower?
Several weeks ago a good friend of mine, Alycia Haladay, asked me to write a criticism of Steven Chance’s recently published article in Brain. The criticism would be posted as […]
NeuroTribes
The following is an opinion piece by one of our readers, Jonathan Mitchell. In this blog Jonathan reviews Steve Silberman’s recently published book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the […]
The Reading of NeuroTribes
The following is a blog written by one of our readers, Ms. Claudia Mazzuco. In the blog Claudia reviews Steve Silberman’s recently published book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and […]
Dr. John Rosen and the Direct Psychoanalytical Institute
I have written several blogs about John Rosen, detailing both his role in the psychoanalytic movement and in promoting the idea of “refrigerator mothers”. More recently, I had the good […]
No Mandatory Screening for Autism?
Recently the US Preventive Services Task Force provided an update on the necessity for screening young children seen in primary care for autism. The panel did not provide a recommendation […]
The Thinking Process in Autism
A new research study from the Universities of East Anglia and Stirling suggests that people with autistic traits provide fewer responses when generating solutions to a problem but otherwise the […]
Oxidative Stress and Autism
Oxidative stress, defined as an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the body’s ability to detoxify these chemicals or repair the damage caused by them, has […]
