Raun Kaufman and the Son-Rise Program
A week or so ago I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture by Raun Kaufman at the National Autism Association Conference in New Orleans. Raun is probably the […]
Tag Archives: applied behavioral analysis
Neurotribe or Diatribe?
I finally got a chance to finish reading Steve Silberman’s widely publicized book “Neurotribes”. The same received the prestigious 2015 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction and some journalists have touted […]
The Autism Movement in Colombia
Recently I had the visit of my good friend Lina Becerra who came as a doctoral fellow to do work in my laboratory. Lina is a professor at Javeriana University […]
The importance of postmortem research in autism
A couple of weeks ago I read the blog of one of my favorite writers Matt Carey of Left Brain Right Brain fame. This particular blog related Matt’s experience while […]
Caveats to the Nature-Nurture Debate on Autism
How much of a condition can be explained by environmental influences and how much can be explained by genetic factors? This has been an outdated polemic within the life sciences […]
Cortical Chauvinism 