Dr. Roberto Tuchman gave a lecture titled “Autism: What does it mean to be a spectrum disorder?” as a part of the Culture Brain and Development Program, the final installment of the semester on Thursday night at Hampshire College. Dr. Tuchman is an acclaimed expert in the autism field, a Hampshire graduate and the director of Developmental and Behavioral Neurology at Miami Children’s Hospital. Dr. Tuchman described autism as a disorder historically treated by psychiatrists. As a neurology resident, he said, “when I talked to my fellow residents
