The boy whose brain could unlock autism

studies find an excess of circuits called mini-columns, which can be seen as the brain's microprocessors

Autism changed Henry Markram’s family. Now his Intense World theory could transform our understanding of the condition.

IMAGINE BEING BORN into a world of bewildering, inescapable sensory overload, like a visitor from a much darker, calmer, quieter planet. Your mother’s eyes: a strobe light. Your father’s voice: a growling jackhammer. That cute little onesie everyone thinks is so soft? Sandpaper with diamond grit. And what about all that cooing and affection? A barrage of chaotic, indecipherable input, a cacophony of raw, unfilterable data.

 

 

• Maia Szalavitz in Matter

The boy whose brain could unlock autism — Matter — Medium


"Life on the Autism Spectrum can be ENJOYable."