As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks. — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance,… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress. — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of re-deployment, of… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
