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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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Beyond Trauma: Danger Mode, Energy Conservation, and the Architecture of Regulation
Toward a neurodiversity-affirming model of allostasis, salience, interoception, and environmental mismatch Trauma matters. For many people, trauma is one of the clearest names we have for how the past keeps living in the body. Trauma-informed… Read more
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Atypicality Is Not Dysfunction: What Stress Biology Can Teach Autism Research
Autism research often begins with a familiar comparison: autistic people are measured against non-autistic controls. Researchers observe differences in gaze, social timing, sensory response, movement, attention, emotion recognition, interoception, or stress physiology. Those differences are… Read more
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From Precision Parts to Precision Systems
Personalized medicine keeps almost arriving. Here is the level it has been missing — and why the science of neurodiversity is where it gets found. There is an adventure science set aside almost before it… Read more
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INSAR Holes: A Systems Science of Autism?
A discussion essay follow-up to “What Biology Came Back to INSAR” mapping the complexity, dynamics, and regulation research already underway — and asking where this science should convene. Note: This blog post is a work… Read more
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Which Biology Came Back to INSAR?
A response to “Bringing basic biology back to INSAR,” The Transmitter, 28 May 2026 This week, May 28th, 2026, The Transmitter ran a Q&A with Christine Wu Nordahl, scientific chair of INSAR 2026 in Prague,… Read more
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