The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Do you ever wish, Alexis, that your heart was just that little bit smaller, so that you didn't have to care quite so much?

In the world of miracles, you ask the impossible.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.