A Different Kind of Boy
Book review: A Different Kind of Boy: A Father’s Memoir on Raising a Gifted Child With Autism by Daniel Mont. This book provides a clear and moving story of what it’s like to have a fairly autistic...
View ArticleImprinted Brain Theory of Autism
An unusual hypothesis about autism involves Genomic imprinting (“imbalances in the outcomes of intragenomic conflict between effects of maternally vs. paternally expressed genes.”). It’s apparently...
View ArticleAutism and Rationality
This paper reports that people with autistic spectrum symptoms are less biased by framing effects. Unfortunately, the researchers suggest that the increased rationality is connected to an inability to...
View ArticleCreate Your Own Economy (?)
Book review: Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World by Tyler Cowen. This somewhat misleadingly titled book is mainly about the benefits of neurodiversity and how changing...
View ArticleADHD and Autism
My understanding of Aspergers/autism (AS) and ADHD suggests to me that they can’t coexist in one personality. I keep coming across reports of people having both, and I’ve been trying to research...
View ArticleAlexithymia
As part of my efforts to improve my relationship skills, I read many of the posts on CharismaTips.com. It’s a site oriented towards male geeks who want better dating skills, but it appears to be useful...
View ArticleIslands of Genius
Book review: Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant, by Darold A. Treffert. This book contains a fair amount of interesting information, but the writing...
View ArticleThe Intense World Syndrome Hypothesis of Autism
A somewhat new hypothesis: The Intense World Theory states that autism is the consequence of a supercharged brain that makes the world painfully intense and that the symptoms are largely because...
View ArticleThe Soulful Science?
Book review: The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle. This book provides a nice overview of economic theory, with an emphasis on how it has been changing...
View ArticleMirror Neurons
Book review: The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition, by Gregory Hickok. This book criticizes hype from scientists and the media about embodied cognition,...
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