Autistic Personality: Living in the Present and Compulsivity
One of the major contributions by Sigmund Freud to psychology was the idea that a lot of what defines our personality lies outside of conscious awareness. Freud illustrated this idea […]
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Personal Space and Autism
My first experience with a group of autistic individuals in a social setting came in the very early 1990’s. A group of friends had come together to discuss the possibility […]
ADHD AND AUTISM
Back in the days when we used the DSM-IV there was a misguided notion that the diagnosis of autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) were mutually exclusionary. If a […]
The Modular Organization of the Cerebral Cortex: Evolutionary Significance and Possible Links to Neurodevelopmental Conditions
One of my special interests in terms of neuroscience has been systems theory and the hierarchical organization of the brain. I have been specially interested in the emergence of higher […]
Recent articles about prematurity
The September 2017 issue of Acta Paediatrica had several interesting articles of some interest to the autism community. This is a classical medical journal that emphasizes clinical studies of value […]
Low frequency rTMS in Children with Autism
A few months ago I started reviewing the medical literature for reports that had used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with parameters similar to our studies for treating children with neurodevelopmental […]
Thoughts on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Autism
During the past few years a lot of interest has been generated regarding the possible use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a therapeutic modality for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). […]
The Thinking Process in Autism
A new research study from the Universities of East Anglia and Stirling suggests that people with autistic traits provide fewer responses when generating solutions to a problem but otherwise the […]
A frame of mind: the problem with neurotypicals
In previous articles, as well as in previous blogs (see http://bit.ly/1iT0BJq), I have written about differences in the blueprint of connectivity of the brain (so-called connectome) that ingrain autistics with […]
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 […]
Cortical Chauvinism 