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he child with autism is at heart “normal”, but their autism has them trapped, blocked-off from the world. Bruno Bettelheim, a leading champion of the refrigerator mother theory, called his major book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Fortress-Infantile-Autism-Birth/dp/0029031400"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Empty Fortress</span></a>. Either professionals, or parents, need to “break through” the autism to contact the “real” child imprisoned by the disorder. Likewise, this real child is eager to get out, but this is very difficult: they are crying out for help. In the 60s, it was psychoanalysis that could free the child. Today, it’s anything from <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/06/citalopram-doesnt-wor.html">Prozac</a> to <a href="http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/">chelation</a> and other <a href="http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml">quack “biomedical” cures</a>.

Autistic Children in the Media - Neuroskeptic

blogs.discovermagazine.com

Sie beobachteten insbesondere zwei grundlegende Erzählweisen: die Romanze, in der geniale Erfinder und Ingenieure Wunderwerke der Technik hervorbringen, sowie die Tragödie, die die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen von Technik betont

Kulturgeschichte Der Technik

Martina Heßler

Crucially, there was also no evidence that these effects generalised to important areas of everyday functioning, which themselves are influenced by working memory ability16 – such as reading and arithmetic.

Neurofeedback for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: meta-analysis of clinical and neuropsychological outcomes from randomized controlled trials

S. Cortese, M. Ferrin, D. Brandeis, M. Holtmann, P. Aggensteiner, D. Daley, P. Santosh, E. Simonoff,...

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