In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.