Fear, emotion and socialization: the role of the amygdala in the symptoms of autism
Note: I am traveling to Colombia this week attending a neuroscience congress and I won’t be able to answer any comments or emails to this or other posts in an […]
Tag Archives: brain function
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
