Key Players in Autism: IV. The Brainstem
In the central nervous system the brainstem links the brain to the spinal cord. This anatomical structure is usually divided into different portions, from top to bottom, these are the […]
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Key Players in Autism: III. Brain Weight
It is really fascinating that even after a person has been declared legally dead the cells of his/her brain are still capable of reacting to environmental stimuli. In effect, as […]
Contando con el futro de nuestros hijos autistas: el banco de cerebros
Todo el mundo está de acuerdo en que para encontrar la causa del autismo tendremos que enfocar nuestra investigación en el cerebro. Tan sólo mirando directamente al tejido de autopsia […]
Key Players in Autism: II. The Cerebellum
It seems that in neuropathology the dictum of real estate applies, it is all about location, location, location. In essence location of pathology constrains the possible number of causative agents […]
Los Defectos de Mitocondrias en el Autismo
Las mitocondrias son pequenos organelos dentro de las celulas que sirven para estabilizar los niveles de calcio y juegan un papel importante en la mediación de un tipo de muerte […]
Autism Research: Distinguishing the good from the bad
Neuropathology is the subspecialty of pathology that studies biopsies or autopsy tissue from the nervous system. The tissue examined includes the central and peripheral nervous system, skeletal muscle and occasionally […]
Autism: Banking on the future of our children
Everybody agrees that in order to find the cause(s) of autism, we have to focus our investigation on the brain. Only by looking directly at the brain can we achieve […]
Mitochondrial Disorders and Autism
Mitochondria are minute organelles that serve to stabilize intracellular levels of calcium and play a prominent role in mediating a certain type of cell-death, the latter called apoptosis. However, the […]
The Squeeze Machine
The squeeze machine is known by many names, e.g., hug machine or hug box. I prefer calling it the squeeze machine to prevent confusion whenever I ask one of our […]
Sensory Problems in Autism
Throughout most of the history of autism as recorded within the medical literature, sensory problems have been paid very little attention. These were not unknown phenomena, both Kanner ad Asperger […]
