Thinking in pictures?

Rearchers at the University of Montreal claim to have demonstrated via MRI what many ASD people have known from phenomenology forever: People with autism use their brains differently from other people, which may explain why some have extraordinary abilities to remember and draw objects in detail, according to new research. University of Montreal scientists say [...]

“Disease of knowledge”

Beloved British satirist Terry Pratchett, 60, discusses his early-onset Alzheimers and the culture he finds himself in: It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s. There were times when I thought I’d have been much happier [...]