Fever and autism
Several years ago a number of parents told Andrew (Andy) Zimmerman that their autistic children did better when they had a fever. These anecdotal reports on improvement were common and […]
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El Magnesio y el Autismo
En noviembre pasado acepté un puesto académico en la Universidad de Carolina del Sur (USC). Debido a una serie de circunstancias no me fue posible el mudarme hasta hace un […]
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 […]
Sinestesias y el autismo
En el libro “Nacido en un día azul”, el autor Daniel Tammet relata cómo su percepción de números como colores le permitió recordar pi al dígito 22514. Tammet y otros […]
Igor Stravinsky and Autism
I once heard a story about the famous composer Igor Stravinsky describing how as he lay on his deathbed he kept knocking with the ring of his finger at a […]
A personal trial of oral citrulline for ASD by Peter Good
I first met Peter a couple of years ago at an Autism Research Institute Think Tank. At the Think Tank Peter impressed everybody with his knowledge, specially about biochemical pathways. […]
El autismo: condición o trastorno?
En el reciente congreso de IMFAR Simon Baron-Cohen tuvo la oportunidad de dar una conferencia luego de una presentación a cargo de John Elder Robison. La conferencia de John había […]
Magnesium and Autism
Last November I accepted a position as a SMART State Endowed Chair in Translational Neurotherapeutics at the University of South Carolina (USC). Due to a number of circumstances I was […]
El Síndrome de Timothy y el Autismo
El síndrome de Timothy es un trastorno genético autosómico dominante poco frecuente. Menos de 20 casos han sido reportados en todo el mundo. Los síntomas se manifiestan desde el principio […]
Synesthesia and Autism
In reading the book “Born on a Blue Day”, the author Daniel Tammet recounts how his perception of numbers as colors allowed him to remember pi to the 22,514th digit. […]
