Un escrito sobre la gran cantidad de hallazgos en el autismo
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
How do we acquire an overall impression of our environment? How does the brain extract different features from sensory sources and then puts them together into a complete form? Computers […]
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