Research Interests and Publications

Several years ago I noticed a similiarity in the behavior of autistic children in my clinic and unbroken horses from my rodeo team days in high school. I wrote to the horse whisperer, Monty Roberts and he told me I wasn't the first to make this observation. Clinicians in a variety of professions were already applying the same techniques he uses with horses in their work with autistic children.

I guess most of the case histories and research articles I have published have centered around the theme of the natural history of behavior. From the desentization procedure I developed for a 22 year old man with a snake phobia so severe that he had not been able to leave his house at night for fifteen years, to experimental models of learned helplessness in rodents and invertebrates such as cockroaches, slugs, and fruit flies.

Currently, I am working on a project on etiological factors in autism and developing a mouse model of autism. 

Click here for a list of my publications. Click here to go to web journals where I have published abbreviated versions of some of the case histories which will appear in my book. Click here to return to my homepage.