Several weeks ago a good friend of mine, Alycia Haladay, asked me to write a criticism of Steven Chance’s recently published article in Brain. The criticism would be posted as […]
Hace unos meses tuve la oportunidad de hablar con mi buen amigo Steve Edelson, del Instituto de Investigación sobre el Autismo (ARI). La conversación giró en torno a que es […]
This is one in a series of blogs where I discuss different conditions manifesting autstic symptomatology of known origin or neuropathology (so-called syndromic autism). The first of these blogs was […]
Human beings have long dwelled on their paradoxical superiority over other animals. Physically we are weaker and, overall, less adapted to the environment than other species. One might reasonably presume […]
The squeeze machine is known by many names, e.g., hug machine or hug box. I prefer calling it the squeeze machine to prevent confusion whenever I ask one of our […]
Throughout most of the history of autism as recorded within the medical literature, sensory problems have been paid very little attention. These were not unknown phenomena, both Kanner ad Asperger […]
The corpus callosum is a bundle of neural fibers that connects both cerebral hemispheres. It is the largest white matter structure of the brain. Signs and symptoms of a corpus […]
This blog follows one of my previously published ideas stating that autism results from a threshold phenomenon where symptoms manifest themselves when 3 factors impinge, to various degree, on the […]
I believe that parents, such as Bernie Rimland, have promoted our modern understanding of autism. Indeed, I have learned more about the clinical aspects of autism by reading autobiographical accounts […]
This blog is a continuation of my previous one: “How do we put our thoughts together?”. It is meant to emphasize the importance of gamma oscillation abnormalities in autism. The […]
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