The Boy Who Felt Too Much

The inspiring family story behind the radical new autism theory.

Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition has been his son Kai, who suffers from autism. Raising Kai made Henry Markram question all that he thought he knew about neuroscience, and then inspired his groundbreaking research that would upend the conventional wisdom about autism, expressed in his now famous theory of Intense World Syndrome.

The theory of Intense World Syndrome could change the way we see autism forever, and it's thanks to Kai, the boy who changed everything.

Featured in the November 2019 Cool for Schools newsletter.
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Featured in the December 2019 Psychology newsletter.
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