Los Defectos de Mitocondrias en el Autismo
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 […]
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Autism Research: Distinguishing the good from the bad
Neuropathology is the subspecialty of pathology that studies biopsies or autopsy tissue from the nervous system. The tissue examined includes the central and peripheral nervous system, skeletal muscle and occasionally […]
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 […]
Mitochondrial Disorders and Autism
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
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 […]
Sensory Problems in Autism
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 […]
Key Players in Autism: I. the Corpus Callosum
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 […]
A Perspective on Psychological Theories of Autism
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 […]
Bernard Rimland
By all accounts Dr. Bernard Rimland is a hero. This was a man who courageously stood up against the prevailing views of the medical establishment in order to say that […]
