A Perspective on Psychological Theories of Autism
Clinicians have proposed different psychological theories to explain mental illness from the perspective of the mind. Some of them are imaginative explanations of facts that have not or can’t be […]
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La necesidad de estudios adicionales sobre la seguridad de la ultrasonografia o ecografía prenatal
La siguiente es una discusión sobre la necesidad de realizar más estudios sobre la seguridad de la ultrasonografía prenatal. Yo creo que el ultrasonido puede ser un factor de riesgo […]
El Uso de la Estimulación Magnética Transcraneana en el Autismo
En artículos anteriores he mencionado la presencia de anormalidades en el cerebro de personas autistas. Estas anormalidades se hacen visibles en la minicolumna; una unidad anatómica de la corteza del […]
Bernard Rimland
By all accounts Dr. Bernard Rimland is a hero. This was a man who courageously stood up against the prevailing views of the medical establishment in order to say that […]
La Intoxicacion con Mercurio no tiene que ver con el Autismo
Creo que padres, como Bernie Rimland, han contribuido grandemente a nuestro entendimiento del autismo. De hecho, he aprendido más acerca de los aspectos clínicos del autismo mediante la lectura de […]
The Triple Hit Hypothesis of Autism
This blog follows one of my previously published ideas stating that autism results from a threshold phenomenon where symptoms manifest themselves when 3 factors impinge, to various degree, on the […]
Autism: It is not About Mercury
I believe that parents, such as Bernie Rimland, have promoted our modern understanding of autism. Indeed, I have learned more about the clinical aspects of autism by reading autobiographical accounts […]
Autism: What is the Buzz About Gamma?
This blog is a continuation of my previous one: “How do we put our thoughts together?”. It is meant to emphasize the importance of gamma oscillation abnormalities in autism. The […]
Major Symptoms of Autism: How do we put Our Thoughts Together?
How do we acquire an overall impression of our environment? How does the brain extract different features from sensory sources and then puts them together into a complete form? Computers […]
Abdominal Pains and Migraine in Autism
About 17 years ago, when I acquired a personal interest in autism, the link to abdominal symptoms was mentioned in the literature but readily dismissed as coincidental. Throughout the years […]
