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The Wiring Diagram Is the Finding
On the largest protein map ever built for autism — and the question it makes unavoidable On 27 August, a UCSF-led team published in Science the largest map of molecular interactions ever assembled for autism.… Read more
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The Brain Thinks Through the Body
How the mind–body split hides solutions, from autism to aging An ESF perspective. This essay describes a conceptual framework, not medical guidance. Nothing here is a substitute for clinical evaluation, and none of it claims… Read more
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The Autism Split Debate Is Really an Argument About Who Deserves What
By Lori Hogenkamp There is an argument missing from the debate over whether the autism spectrum should be split, and I want to make it — but I need you to hold your judgment for… Read more
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One System, Many Diagnoses
Autistic adults often carry a stack of “comorbidities,” treated as separate problems by separate specialists. This piece makes a different case: one regulatory system with no margin left, surfacing in several places at once. Not… Read more
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Reading the Body of a Neurotype
Most of the case for neurodiversity has been made in the register of the mind — ways of thinking, attending, communicating. But a neurotype was never only cognitive. In Toward an Emergent Paradigm I named… Read more
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What Regulatory Bandwidth Makes Visible
We talk about a person’s capacity to handle stress as if it were a single dial — high or low, fixed, theirs. My new paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology says otherwise. Regulatory bandwidth is the present capacity… Read more
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Who Decides When a Stress Difference Is a Disorder?
A paper about maternal stress hormones and autism is almost guaranteed to become a story about whether stress during pregnancy causes autism. That is not what the evidence shows. But a recent review connecting maternal… Read more
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The Missing Layer in Autism’s Energy Revolution
Mitochondria, metabolism, and autonomic regulation are reshaping autism neuroscience. But energy is fuel — and fuel alone can’t explain why the same challenge lands so differently in different nervous systems. We’re missing a layer. Consider… Read more
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The High Gain Nervous System
A diagnosis can name a pattern. It can’t tell you what kind of nervous system a person is living in. I’ve just published a piece on what I call the high-gain nervous system — a… Read more
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Acknowledged, Not Resolved
What a new definition of complex systems clarifies about neurodivergence, deficit, and difference Dave Snowden has published a definition of a complex system (Snowden, 2026). It is worth reading on its own terms. It is… Read more
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