This is the second of a three part series on John Nathaniel Rosen. The first part has already been posted: https://corticalchauvinism.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/the-dark-side-of-psychoanalysis-1-john-nathaniel-rosen-and-the-refrigerator-mothers/ The first blog dealt with the concept of “refrigerator […]
The early history of research in autism is marked by a paucity of neuropathological studies. In agreement with Descartes dualist theory mental disorders were attributed to the mind and thus […]
In the central nervous system the brainstem links the brain to the spinal cord. This anatomical structure is usually divided into different portions, from top to bottom, these are the […]
It is really fascinating that even after a person has been declared legally dead the cells of his/her brain are still capable of reacting to environmental stimuli. In effect, as […]
It seems that in neuropathology the dictum of real estate applies, it is all about location, location, location. In essence location of pathology constrains the possible number of causative agents […]
Las mitocondrias son pequenos organelos dentro de las celulas que sirven para estabilizar los niveles de calcio y juegan un papel importante en la mediación de un tipo de muerte […]
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 […]
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 […]
This blog follows one of my previously published ideas stating that autism results from a threshold phenomenon where symptoms manifest themselves when 3 factors impinge, to various degree, on the […]
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