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 […]
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Syndromic Forms of Autism: Part III
The third in a series by Emily Williams covering syndromic forms of autism. This series reviews conditions like Timothy Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Velocardiofacial Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, and more, trying to seek etiological commonalities across […]
La causa del autismo: Introduccion
Sé que es presuntuoso escribir un artículo sobre la causa del autismo. Hay muchas personas que tienen su propio punto de vista sobre este particular y, a pesar de que […]
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 […]
El sindrome de savant adquirido
Hace unos 25 años tuve la oportunidad de participar en un estudio del NIH donde reclutamos a un grupo de autistas que tenían habilidades para calcular el calendario. Al preguntarle […]
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 […]
All Roads Once Led to Rome… But Do All Roads Lead to Autism??
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 […]
