What can we learn from the health outcomes of the 1918 pandemic?
Cheryl Widman is a newly minted PhD in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A former Chicago Public Schools math and Special Education teacher at Title 1 […]
Tag Archives: schizophrenia
Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia
A few decades ago, after graduating from medical school, I learned that autism was considered to be a rare disorder. Textbooks would report a prevalence of 1 in 10,000 individuals. […]
The Zika Virus, Autism Speaks and Weathervanes
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 […]
The Reading of NeuroTribes
The following is a blog written by one of our readers, Ms. Claudia Mazzuco. In the blog Claudia reviews Steve Silberman’s recently published book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and […]
Igor Stravinsky and Autism
I once heard a story about the famous composer Igor Stravinsky describing how as he lay on his deathbed he kept knocking with the ring of his finger at a […]
Schizophrenia and Autism: the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
Many years ago I found myself reviewing the literature for childhood onset schizophrenia. I was planning on writing an article reporting the autopsy findings of three such cases that came […]
The pathology of autism, is it strictly a “genetic disorder”?
Paul Patterson is an iconic figure in the field of autism.When mentioned in the context of autism his name is synonymous to the possible role of immunological mechanisms. Contrary to […]
Fear, emotion and socialization: the role of the amygdala in the symptoms of autism
Note: I am traveling to Colombia this week attending a neuroscience congress and I won’t be able to answer any comments or emails to this or other posts in an […]
The Dark Side of Psychoanalysis: 3. John Nathaniel Rosen: Fraud
This is the third part of a series on John Nathaniel Rosen and psychoanalysis. The first 2 can be found at: 1) https://corticalchauvinism.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/the-dark-side-of-psychoanalysis-1-john-nathaniel-rosen-and-the-refrigerator-mothers/ and 2) https://corticalchauvinism.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/the-dark-side-of-psychoanalysis-2-john-nathaniel-rosen-therapy-or-outright-patient-abuse/ The first blog dealt […]
The Dark Side of Psychoanalysis: 2. John Nathaniel Rosen: Therapy or Outright Patient Abuse?
This is the second of a three part series on John Nathaniel Rosen. The first part has already been posted: https://corticalchauvinism.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/the-dark-side-of-psychoanalysis-1-john-nathaniel-rosen-and-the-refrigerator-mothers/ The first blog dealt with the concept of “refrigerator […]
Cortical Chauvinism 