Below find #4 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog here. This post, “The PTSD Trap,” is a substantially longer version — call it the director’s cut — of a feature I published […]
Continue reading →Below find #2 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, as I prepared to move them to this site. In this post, on the Batman-movie shootings last summer, I took advantage of a blog’s reiterative freedoms to clarify an […]
Continue reading →For a single post that shows how weirdly and unevenly psychiatric diagnosis actually works (and fails to work) in this country, and what that means for the new DSM, get over to Maia Svalavitz’s clear-eyed account of her own five diagnoses (and the one she never got): Over the course of my life, I have […]
Continue reading →Temple Grandin has a new book out, and over at the Times, I’ve a review of it — rather mixed, I’m afraid: For a quarter century, Dr. Grandin — the brainy, straight-speaking, cowboy-shirt-wearing animal scientist and slaughterhouse designer who at 62 is perhaps the world’s most famous autistic person — has been helping people break […]
Continue reading →Searching YouTube for a performance of one of my favorite pieces of music — and something to offer my readers while I try to finish a big feature about schizophrenia that’s been keeping me — I came across this mashup of Bach and an airport rain delay, and it took me only a few seconds […]
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