Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Field test: Transcranial magnetic stimulation has been studied as a treatment for autism, with inconclusive results. Philippe Garo / Science Source Professor of biomedical engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Xujun Duan wants to find new treatments for autism. In service of that quest, Duan, professor of biomedical engineering at the University…

Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — Autism is typically diagnosed in children when they are 4 or 5 years old, but a new tool could make earlier detection and intervention possible. That’s according to findings of a phase 3 clinical trial just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and…

Miami Police confirmed that a 14-year-old with autism who had been missing since Friday night has been found in good health after police received a tip about his location. According to authorities the manager of the Apple Store at Brickell City Center contacted them after reviewing store surveillance footage and stating Bolaños was still in…

A Florida elementary school teacher is now facing charges after allegedly striking and pulling a 4-year-old autistic child. According to WKMG, the woman was arrested Thursday. RELATED: Florida Family Mourns The Loss Of 10-Month-Old Child Left In Hot Car By Babysitter | TSR Investigates According to the outlet, 48-year-old Stacy Strnad was arrested by Edgewater Police…

One Spectrum Academy student was restrained 99 times in one school year. Another was restrained or secluded at least 40 times over two years. They missed so many hours of learning that the school violated their right to a free and appropriate public education, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced this week.…

Psychiatrist Meng-Chuan Lai has observed the recent rollout of laws restricting gender-affirming medical care in the United States with concern, he says. Some legislators have justified these bills, at least in part, by pointing to his work: In 2020, Lai co-authored a study that found transgender and other gender-diverse people are three to six times…

It’s been a little while since I’ve opened up here. Honestly, it’s been a little while since I’ve written anything here at all. Sometimes I feel like it’s because I don’t have much left to say but other times it’s because I have too much to say and don’t know where to start. I guess…

‘I’m sorry I’m crying…this is so unlike me. This has just never happened before.’ Those were the words I said to a fellow mom today. I didn’t know her. I just knew it was her children on the raft that my son Cooper was swimming out too. It took me a second to catch my…

“We have a wide variety of seating, so students can choose how they learn.” This was a statement I wasn’t expecting to hear when I met my son’s teacher. I grew up when all the desks were the same, and students were expected to sit quietly and follow along with the teacher’s lesson.  But when…

As I pour boiling water onto little flakes of dried coffee, the sun begins to shyly glimmer on the horizon as it makes its daily journey. Flycatchers have just begun to skim over the lake in front of me and a soft breeze ruffles the tips of subalpine grasses, sending tickles up my neck. The…