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Enlargement of the brain ventricles in preterm infants who later on exhibit autistic symptoms

August 27, 2013by m0casa02 1 Comment

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 […]

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Extreme prematurity and autism

August 19, 2013by m0casa02 1 Comment

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 […]

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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and autism

August 12, 2013by m0casa02 46 Comments

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 […]

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Tuberous sclerosis and autism

August 5, 2013by m0casa02 2 Comments

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 […]

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The Cause of Autism: Part 2 The Basics

July 23, 2013by m0casa02 9 Comments

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 […]

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The Cause of Autism: Part 1 Introduction

July 16, 2013by m0casa02 11 Comments

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 […]

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The significance of small cells in autism

July 9, 2013by m0casa02 4 Comments

The job of a neuropathologist is to establish the existence of abnormalities in the conformation of both cells and tissue. This endeavor is not all that different from that of […]

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All Roads Once Led to Rome… But Do All Roads Lead to Autism??

July 6, 2013by m0casa02 6 Comments

What do autism and cancer have in common? There are many false results in genetic studies of cancer research and these are similar to those ones reported for autism. All […]

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Acquired Savant Syndrome

July 2, 2013by m0casa02 5 Comments

Probably some 25 years ago I was able to participate in a NIH study where we recruited a group of autistic individuals that had calendar calculating abilities.  The idea was […]

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The rising prevalence of autism: lessons learned from the Flynn effect

June 24, 2013by m0casa02 11 Comments

Average IQ scores during the last 8 decades have increased by some 25 point. This is an incredibly huge gain observable throughout the whole world, including developing countries.  If you […]

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Dr. Manuel Casanova is a neurologist, with extensive experience in Neuropathology and research. He is currently the SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics and Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina/Greenville Health Systems.

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