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 […]
Tag Archives: causes of autism
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 […]
Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part II
Most cases of autism have no underlying cause to them and are called idiopathic. A significant minority of cases have an underlying cause and are called syndromic. This is the […]
The significance of small cells in autism
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 […]
Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part I
My partner, Emily Williams, has a blog devoted primarily to science. However, she has had a longstanding interest in autism, specially the genetics of the same. In this blog she […]
Caveats to the Nature-Nurture Debate on Autism
How much of a condition can be explained by environmental influences and how much can be explained by genetic factors? This has been an outdated polemic within the life sciences […]
The Neurodiversity Argument: Good Intentions Resting on a Shaky Scientific Foundation
Neurodiversity is a movement that offers a perspective about autism that differs from that espoused by the medical profession. The ideology seems rooted in the anti-psychiatry movement ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry […]
Our Latest Study: The Link between Mobile Element Content and Autism-risk Genes
Why are there so many risk genes for autism? Can we explain the large number based on a commonality? Despite the push for heterogeneity, our latest result suggests that a […]
