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...Even for something like 'impossible,' I get a picture in my head," said Grandin. She said she imagined herself trying to jump on top of William James Hall from the sidewalk...
Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, who designed more than one-third of all livestock-handling facilities in the U.S., explained the connection between cows and autism to a packed audience last night in Science Center...
...Grandin, who is professor of animal behavior at Colorado State University, said she attributes her success to her autism...
According to Grandin, this kind of "sensory thinking," used by many autistic people, is similar to that of cows and other animals. Using this method of thinking, she said, allows her to build better facilities...
...With Grandin and other subjects, Sacks has refined the case history into an art form. As his friend and colleague New York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old-fashioned family doctor. There is also Sacks' open, encompassing style that welcomes the reader into his esoteric world. "A neurologist's life is not systematic," he writes, "but it provides him with novel and unexpected situations, which can be windows, peepholes, into the intricacy of nature-an intricacy that...