Schizophrenia and Autism: the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
Many years ago I found myself reviewing the literature for childhood onset schizophrenia. I was planning on writing an article reporting the autopsy findings of three such cases that came […]
Tag Archives: autism spectrum
Vaccines and Autism
Several years ago I was approached by government lawyers who wanted me to testify at the Omnibus Autism Proceedings of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They wanted to use my […]
We already know what is happening to the brain in autism
The following is a link to a lecture that I provided at Autism One 2014. The same is laden with some medical verbiage but it was meant to illustrate my […]
A Little Known Fact: Very Late Onset Autism
Autism is presently recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder. This means that sometime during gestation brain development is disturbed. Fingerprints indicative of migrational abnormalities and cortical malformations support the premise that […]
Carmen B. Pingree
It is amazing what parents are able to achieve on behalf of their children. The TEACCH program in North Carolina and the career of Dr. Eric Schopler came about as […]
Autism Self Diagnosis: The Seinfeld Syndrome
A few months ago, during an interview with Brian Williams of NBC’s “Nightly News”, Jerry Seinfled proclaimed that on a very drawn-out scale he fell on the autism spectrum. When […]
Asperger Syndrome and Classic Autism
This is a guest-posting by one of our readers. Claudia Mazzucco has had an almost thirty year golfing career as writer, researcher, historian, editor and teacher of the history of […]
Communication and Autism
Communication is an example of a dynamic process that transpires between people. If we make ourselves understood and obtain what we wanted, we have been effective at communicating our thoughts. […]
Historical Musing: Salt Lake City and Autism
This year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) will be celebrated at Salt Lake City (SLC), Utah. Although unknown to many individuals this city has played a major role in […]
The Daily Beast and Pro-Neurodiversity Arguments
A recent article on The Daily Beast has acquired a certain amount of attention on the internet (http://thebea.st/1ziYuY1 ). The article, written by Elizabeth Picciuto, was titled, “They Don’t Want […]
