The Rare Urbach-Wiethe disease and Autism
Medical students say that Neurology is the discipline of medicine that exalts the memorization of foreign words and eponyms. In Neurology there are endless facts surrounding names that go back […]
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A Cautionary Note on the Use of Transcraneal Magnetic Stimulation in Autism
For many years now my group has used Transcraneal Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to treat autism. We had the distinction of having the first published article on the subject, and have […]
Self-injurious behaviors, clumsiness, motor stereotypies, faulty facial recognition, the bothersome nature of change, joint attention and theory of mind in autism: putting it all together
I will always remember seeing Mel Kaplan examine autistic patients for a prism lens study that was being conducted at my laboratory. One young participant, despite having his parents around, […]
Self-Injurious behaviors and autism
I have often heard that about 20 to 30% of individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will exhibit significant symptoms of irritability and/or aggression including quickly changing moods, severe […]
Enlargement of the brain ventricles in preterm infants who later on exhibit autistic symptoms
Figure: Tammy Movsas visiting our laboratory (8/26/13). Recently I wrote a blog for my fiancee Emily Williams. The same appeared on her web site “Science over a Cuppa” (see http://bit.ly/12Flp3T […]
The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and Autism
For all people that think that cholesterol is a bad thing they should take a look at conditions linked to abnormalities in its metabolism such as the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, Niemann-Pick, […]
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 […]
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 […]
