In 1989-1990 Ms. Binstock began Independent Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder, but soon transferred to University of Colorado-Health Sciences Center. Her mentors at UC and at UCHSC included James R. Wilson, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Genetics & Psychology; Gordon K. Farley, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry; and Randi J. Hagerman, M.D., child development specialist and current director of M.I.N.D. Institute at Stanford. After mastering several autism-related categories of medical literature –she published several articles which demonstrate a working grasp of neuroanatomy, molecular genetics, immunology, gut-brain connections, and toxins' potential effects on infants and toddlers.(1-6) In 1997 Ms. Binstock was perceived to qualify for an Asperger's diagnosis.(7) In 1998, she ended her UCHSC affiliation and returned to the edge of deep nature,what a psychologist perceived as her “comfort zone” (8).
Since 1998, she has been perusing and interpreting medical data-sets from autism-spectrum children. These data-matrices often become a crucial component in the child's receiving treatment for an etiologically significant biomedical substrate. The written reports arising from the data are intended for the child's physicians and the parents, are supported by numerous citations from peer-reviewed journals, and provide the child's physicians with possible etiologic models as well as treatment models.
In the last decade Ms. Binstock received a CAN! grant, and several ARI grants for writing papers. Her current projects include: a paper focusing upon Autism Spectrum Malnutrition, including intestinal distress as a symptom consistent with increased susceptibility in infants and toddlers; a paper examining environmental-degradation as a background factor contributing to increased susceptibility; and a book that, while different from CSB, ought also help change the prevailing model by which autism-spectrum disorders and their various etiologies, their biomedical substrates, and their treatments are understood.

References

1. Fragile X and the amygdala: cognitive, interpersonal, emotional, and neuroendocrine considerations. Binstock T. Dev Brain Dysfunction 1995 8:199-217.
2. Anterior insular cortex: linking intestinal pathology and brain function in autism-spectrum subgroups. Binstock T. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Dec;57(6):714-7.
3. An immune hypothesis of sexual orientation. Binstock T. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Nov;57(5):583-90.
4. Intra-monocyte pathogens delineate autism subgroups. Bintock T. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):523-31.
5: Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. Review.
6. From fertilization to adult sexual behavior. Diamond M, Binstock T, Kohl JV. Horm Behav. 1996 Dec;30(4):333-53
7. Naseem Smith, M.D., Post-doc fellow, UCHSH, 1997.
8. Ed Wisner, Ph.D., Estes Park psychologist, 1989.