The autism diagnosis was confirmed through rigorous criteria, including the DSM-V, the Autism Diagnostic Interview (i.e., ADI-R52), and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (i.e., ASDOS-2). Moreover, all participants completed the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (i.e., CAPE...
Changes in the protein's function early in a child's brain development can, like a wayward driver on a freeway, set off a chain reaction that hampers connections between brain cells and, consequently, hinder the brain's ability to store and process information. ...
Core ideas within Buddhist and Daoist spiritual traditions are reflective of the commonalities found across many human scale indigenous cultures. A compassionate frame of love as vulnerable mutual knowing is compatible with a panpsychic relational philosophy. Everyone wants their experience to be taken se...
The human capacity for language would not have given us any adaptive ecological advantage if it did not primarily serve the purpose of improving our ability to understand, trust, and rely on each other. A frame of collaborative niche construction allows us to contribute to rather than extract fr...
People with ASD often show a heightened interest and response to music, making it an excellent therapeutic tool for working with them.”This reminds me of the Psychic Network infomercials of a few years ago: “Trust us, we’re for real!” ...
Autism is a pervasive development disorder (PDD), a group of illnesses that involve delays in the development of many basic skills, most notably the ability to socialize or form relationships with others, as well as the ability to communicate and to use imagination (including fantasy play). Chi...
Our capacity to attend a target while ignoring irrelevant distraction impacts our ability to successfully interact with our environment. Previous reports have sometimes identified excessive distractor interference in both autism and schizophrenia spectru
This notion is linked to that of “developmental lines” by which Anna Freud intended to describe the progressive evolution of psychic functions from their earliest origins to their mature, adult forms. Some years later, this concept has been introduced in psychopathology. The notion of Disharmony ...
fast, and mine can even tell when I’m notthinkingabout him, and when I am. When he was small and I was looking at him but not thinking about him, he would always do something to snap me back to attention – it was a psychic choke chain that quite probably kept both of us alive...
The “Psychic” Thing This one’s a bit embarrassing, For a good part of my childhood - especially tween/early teen years, my grandmother and other people around me were convinced that I was psychic, and pretty much had me convinced of the same. ...