The best presentation at IMFAR2014: Marsha Mailick
It is difficult to read about autism in the newspaper nowadays without the article including the photograph of a young autistic child. The focus of the photograph is so much […]
Category Archives: autism
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy for autism consensus conference
With five congresses to attend in May and 4 more in June my head has started to spin. However, I am hoping to enjoy the experience as all of the […]
Declan Murphy at IMFAR 2014
This was the start of the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) and the opening speaker was a my good friend Declan Murphy from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s […]
Storytelling, learning, and autism
Storytelling is part of the therapeutic interventions that have been tried in autism. The idea for using storytelling is to facilitate language skills and increase attention in autistic children. These […]
A frame of mind: the problem with neurotypicals
In previous articles, as well as in previous blogs (see http://bit.ly/1iT0BJq), I have written about differences in the blueprint of connectivity of the brain (so-called connectome) that ingrain autistics with […]
Zombies, Theory of Mind, and Autism
If you lack sleep or if you are bored you may find yourself half conscious while reading this blog. Freud would say that many of our personal problems lurk in […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein debunks Theory of Mind in autism
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria to an affluent family. Three of his brothers committed suicide and Wittgenstein himself considered the same. He […]
Chronic stress and autism
Many years ago Robert Sapolsky wrote a book entitled: “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers”. The basic idea of the book was that acute stressors (e.g., a lion attacking a zebra) […]
Autism related efforts in China
I am coming back from China after a whirlwind tour of several cities. My first stop was in Shanghai where I spent three days in a workshop discussing Transcranial Magnetic […]
Patches of disorganization in the cerebral cortex of children with autism
I will be leaving for China this weekend. Travel exigencies may prevent me from posting in the near future. In this regard I have opted for posting today. Hopefully I […]
