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. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells,… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain. — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
