The best presentation at IMFAR2014: Marsha Mailick
It is difficult to read about autism in the newspaper nowadays without the article including the photograph of a young autistic child. The focus of the photograph is so much […]
Tag Archives: children with autism
Zombies, Theory of Mind, and Autism
If you lack sleep or if you are bored you may find yourself half conscious while reading this blog. Freud would say that many of our personal problems lurk in […]
Autism related efforts in China
I am coming back from China after a whirlwind tour of several cities. My first stop was in Shanghai where I spent three days in a workshop discussing Transcranial Magnetic […]
Patches of disorganization in the cerebral cortex of children with autism
I will be leaving for China this weekend. Travel exigencies may prevent me from posting in the near future. In this regard I have opted for posting today. Hopefully I […]
Gestalt psychology, ADHD and autism
Although interest about the workings of the mind date back to the Ancient Greeks, the modern offshoot that established it as science rather than philosophy was based on the German […]
Transcranial Magentic Stimulation and Autism: Generalities
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers a way of modulating the way the cerebral cortex works. The magnitude and direction of the effects, whether excitatory or inhibitory, depends on the variables […]
Looking Beyond The Haze By Paul Isaacs
The following is an invited blog by Paul Isaacs. I have written about Paul before as someone that I admire. Paul is a speaker, trainer, author and consultant on the […]
Why Use Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Autism?
Originally posted on Cortical Chauvinism:
In previous posts I have mentioned our findings of abnormal minicolumns in the brains of autistic individuals. The minicolumn is an elemental modular unit of…
Rubella, the MMR Vaccination, and Autism
In this particular blog I will continue expanding on my line of thinking regarding what I consider to be the basic abnormality in the brains of individuals with autism spectrum […]
Mice exposed to ultrasound during pregnancy show autistic behaviors
The Journal of Autism Research just published an article detailing the effects of prenatal ultrasound on mice (Autis Res Nov 18, 2013 doi 10.1002/aur.1349, Epub ahead of print). The authors […]
