Ludwig Wittgenstein echa por tierra la teoria de la mente en el autismo
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein nació el 26 de abril de 1889 en Viena, Austria a una familia de grandes recursos económicos. Tres de sus hermanos se suicidaron y el propio […]
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El estres cronico y el autismo
Hace muchos años Robert Sapolsky, escribió un libro titulado: “¿Por qué las cebras no padecen de úlceras”. La idea básica del libro es que los factores de estrés agudos (por […]
Self-injurious behaviors, clumsiness, motor stereotypies, faulty facial recognition, the bothersome nature of change, joint attention and theory of mind in autism: putting it all together
I will always remember seeing Mel Kaplan examine autistic patients for a prism lens study that was being conducted at my laboratory. One young participant, despite having his parents around, […]
Stephen M Edelson, PhD
Steve Edelson envisions autism research as a moving car. The chauffeurs of the car, making it move forwards or in the right direction, are people like Bernard Rimland or Temple […]
The Neurodiversity Argument: Good Intentions Resting on a Shaky Scientific Foundation
Neurodiversity is a movement that offers a perspective about autism that differs from that espoused by the medical profession. The ideology seems rooted in the anti-psychiatry movement ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry […]
Cortical Chauvinism 