Social Robots and Autism
Paro is a very cute baby seal robot that responds to the emotions of its handlers by interpreting tactile and auditory stimuli (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJq5PQZHU-I). Its name is derived from Personal Robot. […]
Tag Archives: the human brain
NeuroTribes
The following is an opinion piece by one of our readers, Jonathan Mitchell. In this blog Jonathan reviews Steve Silberman’s recently published book “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the […]
Trouble in Mind
The following is abstracted from a very long article about our work that appeared locally in Louisville Magazine. The article was authored by Jenni Laidman and published in the August […]
Jonathan Mitchell: The Mu Rhythm Bluff
…because my role is that of a gadfly, “to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth” -Socrates Several years ago I met autism’s […]
Similarities between the brains of autistic individuals and some renowned neuroscientists
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 […]
Key Players in Autism: IV. The Brainstem
In the central nervous system the brainstem links the brain to the spinal cord. This anatomical structure is usually divided into different portions, from top to bottom, these are the […]
The Squeeze Machine
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 […]
Sensory Problems in Autism
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 […]
Key Players in Autism: I. the Corpus Callosum
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 […]
The Triple Hit Hypothesis of Autism
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 […]
Cortical Chauvinism 