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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Hace par de años atrás, mientras participaba en una reunión (IMFAR) sobre el autismo asistí a una conferencia sobre el uso de animales como modelos de enfermedades humanas. La profesora, […]
Hace unos 17 años, cuando adquirí un interés personal en el autismo, el vínculo con síntomas abdominales se mencionaba en la literatura, pero era fácilmente descartado como coincidental. A lo […]
The corpus callosum is a bundle of neural fibers that connects both cerebral hemispheres. It is the largest white matter structure of the brain. Signs and symptoms of a corpus […]
Clinicians have proposed different psychological theories to explain mental illness from the perspective of the mind. Some of them are imaginative explanations of facts that have not or can’t be […]
La siguiente es una discusión sobre la necesidad de realizar más estudios sobre la seguridad de la ultrasonografía prenatal. Yo creo que el ultrasonido puede ser un factor de riesgo […]
En artículos anteriores he mencionado la presencia de anormalidades en el cerebro de personas autistas. Estas anormalidades se hacen visibles en la minicolumna; una unidad anatómica de la corteza del […]
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