Elyn Saks: My Journey Through Madness
Many years ago, circa 2010, I had the opportunity of listening to a lecture by Elyn Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry from the University of Southern California. The […]
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Autism: Feeling lonely in a hyperconnected world
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. –Helen Keller Hyperconnectivity is a modern word that is rapidly making inroads into our colloquial […]
Tourette syndrome and autism
Many behavioral manifestations of autism overlap with the diagnostic symptoms of conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Tourette syndrome (TS). Some of the shared […]
Autism: fear and maladaptive behaviors
What would happen if fear became your predominant mood? For many autistic individuals fear is an ever-present state of mind. Patients with autism live in fear that “nothing is what […]
Language and autism
Language is the mind’s most mysterious ability and one of its most powerful tools. It is what allows us to contemplate the vastness of the night sky, ponder on Plato’s […]
Spirituality and autism
Neurotheology, a term first coined by Aldous Huxley, is the study of the relationship between the brain and religious experience. Using neuropsychological screenings and different neuroimaging techniques this burgeoning field […]
Interpersonal communication and neurodiversity
Interpersonal communication molds our way of thinking. Transformative changes come about because in a conversation people trust their friends. After all, don’t friends have your best interests in mind? Indeed, […]
The anti-science culture and autism
We live in an era when science has become politicized. We regard scientific arguments as unintuitive while simultaneously claiming to be rational human beings. Within society fallacious statements spread like […]
My last clinical trial in autism
I retired last July from academics but still have a backlog of publications and data that seem to pop-up now and then in the medical literature. Hopefully, I will complete […]
Some Thoughts about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Autism
There are several hundred studies of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in autism. Trying to make sense out of them would entail gathering the results of comparable studies that adhered to […]
Cortical Chauvinism 