Trouble in Mind
The following is abstracted from a very long article about our work that appeared locally in Louisville Magazine. The article was authored by Jenni Laidman and published in the August […]
Tag Archives: autism spectrum disorder
Extreme prematurity and autism
Preterm birth is usually defined as the birth of a baby before 37 weeks of gestational age. Extreme prematurity refers to those babies born between 22 and 25 completed weeks […]
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and autism
This is one in a series of blogs where I discuss different conditions manifesting autstic symptomatology of known origin or neuropathology (so-called syndromic autism). The first of these blogs was […]
Tuberous sclerosis and autism
This is the first of several blogs describing how a variety of conditions, which manifest autistic symptomatology in a high proportion of cases, involve the same mechanism: interference with the […]
The Cause of Autism: Part 2 The Basics
My previous blog served to introduce the possibility of a defect in brain development that could explain many of the observed pathological features of autism (see http://bit.ly/1aM5KFu ). In it […]
The Cause of Autism: Part 1 Introduction
I know that it is presumptious to write an article about what may be the cause of autism. There are many individuals that have their own take on this particular […]
Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part II
Most cases of autism have no underlying cause to them and are called idiopathic. A significant minority of cases have an underlying cause and are called syndromic. This is the […]
The significance of small cells in autism
The job of a neuropathologist is to establish the existence of abnormalities in the conformation of both cells and tissue. This endeavor is not all that different from that of […]
Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part I
My partner, Emily Williams, has a blog devoted primarily to science. However, she has had a longstanding interest in autism, specially the genetics of the same. In this blog she […]
All Roads Once Led to Rome… But Do All Roads Lead to Autism??
What do autism and cancer have in common? There are many false results in genetic studies of cancer research and these are similar to those ones reported for autism. All […]
