How’d You Get So Smart??? The Little Known History about Brain Evolution
Contrary to the old adage, you don’t have a reptilian brain. At least, not any more than you have an amphibian brain or a fish brain. The idea that the […]
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Sensory Issues in Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
For those of you interested in the overlap between Ehlers-Danlos (EDS)/hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and autism, sensory issues in EDS/HSD probably come as no great surprise. Nevertheless, this is an […]
Ancient Autism Genes
We recently published an article in Autism Research reporting that autism genes are extremely ancient compared to other genes in the human genome. Illustration by Alexander Glandien. Courtesy of Spectrum News. […]
Connective Tissue & the Brain
Connective tissue is a fibrous cell-sparse network that helps to connect, support, bind, and separate neighboring tissues from one another. It exists in and around every organ of the body. […]
What’s Unique about Human Brain Evolution?
Even though we’ve been separated by about 450 million years of evolution, humans and zebrafish share homology in roughly 70% of their genes. Yet in spite of this commonality, few […]
Neuronal Excitability & Schizophrenia
In comparison to autism, schizophrenia has had a longer history of study. Yet in recent times, research into the condition seems to have received less money than autism itself, most […]
Neurodegeneration in Schizophrenia?
“Despite the substantial evidence and compelling rationale of the neurodevelopmental theories [in that schizophrenia adheres to a developmental model in which the primary developmental defect gives rise to pathologic ramifications […]
Autism: Reading the Brain in the Face
The human embryo develops three basic germ layers, which each give rise to various and occasionally overlapping structures. This is known as the Germ Layer Theory, originally proposed by Karl […]
Changes to Nervous System Patterning in Autism
A good deal of my recent work has been focused on studying deviations to neuronal identity in relation to autism etiology. Though we use the term “neuron” to describe large […]
Do Rare Mutations Play Important Roles in Common Conditions Like Autism?
The common disease, common variant hypothesis (CD/CV) stated that a few common allelic variants could account for the genetic variance in disease susceptibility, whereas the rare variant (CD/RV) hypothesis stated […]
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