What Causes the Major Symptoms of Autism (Part 1)?
A pedagogic aspect of a pathologist’s job is trying to explain symptoms based on autopsy findings. This follows a long tradition in medicine where a professor does dissections while asking […]
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Why Use Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Autism?
In previous posts I have mentioned our findings of abnormal minicolumns in the brains of autistic individuals. The minicolumn is an elemental modular unit of the cortex serving as an […]
The Cerebral Cortex and Autism
Raymond D. Adams, the perennial Chief of Neurology at Mass. General, taught his residents that the initial step in order to make a clinical diagnosis was to localize the lesion. […]
Cortical Chauvinism 