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 […]
Tag Archives: autism spectrum disorders
Organization of the Cerebral Cortex: Photographs of the Congress in Louisville, KY 2013
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to host a congress in Louisville regarding the organization of the cerebral cortex. My co-chair was my good friend Ioan Opris […]
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 […]
Acquired Savant Syndrome
Probably some 25 years ago I was able to participate in a NIH study where we recruited a group of autistic individuals that had calendar calculating abilities. The idea was […]
