Does autism happen the way we think it does?
My latest story, about how autism starts, starts like this: One of the oldest ideas in autism — as old as the naming of the condition itself — is that it comes ...
Tag: child development
“Thank God toddlers don’t carry guns.” On the roots of violence.
My latest at the New York Times looks at the work of child psychologist Richard Tremblay, who finds that violent criminals don’t become violent — they jus...
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-Bloom
Author’s: This post is an expansion of a feature I published a few weeks ago in New Scientist. It draws from research for a book I’m now writing, Th...