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The ABCs of Depression
“Depression,” like “heart attack” is a generalized term covering a variety different conditions with a final, shared path of feelings of sadness and grief coupled with symptoms, such as tearfulness, lack of appetite, insomnia, weight loss, and feelings of despair, hopelessness and sometimes worth
A Gene for Savant Syndrome?
Doctor Erika Nurmi and co-workers at Vanderbilt University recently, using genetic exploration and methods, were able to identify, and separate, a subset of persons with autism who shared savant skills from a much larger group of autistic persons who did not have such skills.
A Savant Odyssey
I met my first savant my first day on the job as a psychiatrist. And I have been intrigued with that extraordinary condition ever since.
Asperger’s Disorder and Savant Syndrome
April 29, 2004 article in The New York Times by Amy Harmon:
Finding out: adults and autism; an answer, but not a cure, for a social disorder
Autistic Disorder 52 Years Later: Some Common Sense Conclusions
I met my first autistic child in 1955, when I was a second year medical student. That perplexing condition engaged and intrigued me then, and engages and intrigues me still, 52 years later.
Pagination
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