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Your Brain in Love: Part 4 – Oxytocin, the Love/Hate Hormone

Brain and Love, Brain Health, Brain in Love, NeuroscienceBy Marghi MerzenichFebruary 10, 2019

Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! You may have heard of oxytocin, sometimes called the “love hormone.” Human and animal studies have shown that oxytocin plays a…

How Meditation Helps Me Manage My Asperger’s Syndrome

Autism, Brain Health, Mood and StressBy Marghi MerzenichSeptember 8, 2015

Editor’s note: Today we are excited to share a guest post from Kathleen Carter. Kathleen is a teen living with Asperger’s Syndrome. She enjoys educating her peers and others about AS. She does so by writing proudly about how her life differs from other people her age. She is so grateful to have the opportunity to write…

Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on "Different Ways of Knowing"

Autism, Brain Videos, TedTalkBy Marghi MerzenichJune 27, 2011

Daniel Tammet is a self-described high functioning autistic savant with a mastery of language.

Stephen Wiltshire’s Amazing Brain

Autism, MemoryBy Marghi MerzenichSeptember 1, 2010

I happened across this video of Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man whose ability to remember incredible detail and draw it with near perfection is extraordinary. If he flies in a helicopter over a city just once, he can recreate the city perfectly in a drawing. The buildings have the right number of columns and windows.…

Personal Hero: Temple Grandin

Autism, Brain Health, Language, Memory, Neuroscience, TedTalkBy Marghi MerzenichFebruary 25, 2010

People have been talking about Temple Grandin quite a bit lately, partly because HBO recently released an original movie about her life and achievements starring Claire Danes. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, I highly recommend it. (If you don’t have HBO, you can make a note to check it out when it’s released…

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