The Zika virus has been making headlines and along with it have been the circulation of gratuitous remarks from some health-related professionals linking this viral infestation to autism. One investigator […]
Neurodiversity proponents have a peculiar way of cherry picking characteristics of autism and hand-waving them into positive and somewhat appealing attributes. Repetitive movements, for example, are labelled as “personality traits” […]
It was with great sorrow that I learned of the passing away of Isabelle Rapin. She died this past month of pneumonia at the age of 89. For the past […]
I recently gave a lecture for the Autism Research Institute. The same dealt with whether autism should be considered a single condition or a conglomerate of multiple disorders. My position […]
A few months ago I wrote a blog about Dravet syndrome (http://bit.ly/1IOKxum ). In this condition a genetic defect impairs the normal development of the brain thus giving rise to […]
Autism is presently recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder. This means that sometime during gestation brain development is disturbed. Fingerprints indicative of migrational abnormalities and cortical malformations support the premise that […]
Dravet syndrome is the eponym for a particular type of severe epilepsy that begins between the first and fifth year of life. It was named after the French physician Dr. […]
“Instead of focusing on your differences, think about the things all people have in common… like the tendency to focus on their differences.” Anonymous “I would never want to belong […]
This is the last of a series of blogs written about the ketogenic diet. The first two dealt with a historical background to the diet (http://bit.ly/11Q9HWX) as well as some […]
Low carbohydrate diets create fuel metabolism by using fatty acids and ketones while minimizing glucose utilization. In a low carbohydrate diet the body consumes the available blood glucose and then […]
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