Category Archives: Neuroscience

Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World

By Steve Silberman
Posted: April 2, 2012
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Education, Ethics, Genetics, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Social networks, Technology | Tagged , | 44 Comments

Breaking the Habits that Enslave Us: Q&A with Charles Duhigg

By Steve Silberman
Posted: March 20, 2012
Category: Books, Culture, History, Interview, Journalism, Marriage Equality, Media, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Placebo effect, Race, Science, Social networks, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , | 20 Comments

Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete

By Steve Silberman
Posted: February 6, 2012
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Drugs, Genetics, Interview, Multimedia, Music, Neuroscience, Personal computing, Photography, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 44 Comments

Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Straight Talk with Seth Mnookin

By Steve Silberman
Posted: March 8, 2011
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Bacteria, Biology, Books, Ethics, Genetics, Health, Interview, Journalism, Media, Memory, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 61 Comments

Hidden Light: The Visual Language of an Autistic Photographer

By Steve Silberman
Posted: February 9, 2011
Category: Art, Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Drugs, Genetics, Interview, Multimedia, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Photography, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | 45 Comments

I’m Right Here: Rudy Simone on Life as an “Aspergirl”

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 27, 2010
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Books, Comedy, Feminism, Gay, Jazz, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Poetry, Science, Sexuality, Women, Writers | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

Carl Zimmer on “Brain Cuttings” and the Future of Books

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 18, 2010
Category: Books, E-books, Interview, Journalism, Media, Multimedia, Neuroscience, Science, Science Writing, Social networks, Technology, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

No More Pity: The First Openly Autistic White House Appointee Speaks Out

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 6, 2010
Category: Autism, Health, Interview, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Oliver Sacks on Vision, His Next Book, and Surviving Cancer

By Steve Silberman
Posted: September 1, 2010
Category: Books, Drugs, Interview, Neuroscience | Tagged , , , , , | 50 Comments