This is the first of three episodes featuring autism expert and polymath Dr. Manuel Casanova, who recently retired after an illustrious career in neuroscience and neuroanatomy. The author of 18 books and innumerable papers, Dr. Casanova is known for his pioneering work identifying abnormalities of neural growth and migration in developing autism brains, and irregularities in connectivity and the critical excitation-inhibition balance. He is also known for his work discovering abnormalities of "minicolumns" in the cerebral cortex. They also discuss the prospects for a true biomarker of autism. In this somewhat technical discussion he explores the pathologies seen in autism brains with host Jill Escher.

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