Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to …

- Gerald Fischbach

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

Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associat…

- Gerald Fischbach

I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers…

- Gerald Fischbach

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

- Gerald Fischbach

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular …

- Gerald Fischbach

It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression i…

- Gerald Fischbach

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

- Gerald Fischbach

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 life of people w…

- Gerald Fischbach