Today’s IACC public comment by National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA) president and my good friend Jill Escher is entitled: The Big Picture *********** My name is Jill Escher, I’m […]
Many years ago, circa 2010, I had the opportunity of listening to a lecture by Elyn Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry from the University of Southern California. The […]
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. –Helen Keller Hyperconnectivity is a modern word that is rapidly making inroads into our colloquial […]
Many behavioral manifestations of autism overlap with the diagnostic symptoms of conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Tourette syndrome (TS). Some of the shared […]
What would happen if fear became your predominant mood? For many autistic individuals fear is an ever-present state of mind. Patients with autism live in fear that “nothing is what […]
Language is the mind’s most mysterious ability and one of its most powerful tools. It is what allows us to contemplate the vastness of the night sky, ponder on Plato’s […]
Neurotheology, a term first coined by Aldous Huxley, is the study of the relationship between the brain and religious experience. Using neuropsychological screenings and different neuroimaging techniques this burgeoning field […]
Interpersonal communication molds our way of thinking. Transformative changes come about because in a conversation people trust their friends. After all, don’t friends have your best interests in mind? Indeed, […]
We live in an era when science has become politicized. We regard scientific arguments as unintuitive while simultaneously claiming to be rational human beings. Within society fallacious statements spread like […]
I retired last July from academics but still have a backlog of publications and data that seem to pop-up now and then in the medical literature. Hopefully, I will complete […]
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