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IACC Head Says No Question Environment Is a Component of Autism
David Kirby's recent interview with Dr. Thomas Insel of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is quite possibly the autism interview of the decade, one that will be referenced in future histories of autism. Kirby interviewed Dr. Insel after ...
Homeostasis Model of Autism Causation - Is Autism Triggered By Glutamite and Glycine Imbalance?
In a press release from PR Newswire, a New Jersey based business oriented think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes® LLC, outlines what it believes is a model of autism causation discovered while researching neuroscientific principles...
CARD Study Finds Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Ineffective Treatment for Children with Autism
CARD, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc., has conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial which found that HBOT, consisting of 24% oxygen delivered at 1.3 atmospheres of pressure, does not have a significant effect on symptoms of...
Autism Research Quote of the Year .... 2003
The increase in the incidence of autism from 1990 on may be attributable to more attention being drawn to the syndrome of autism and to achange in the diagnostic criteria from the ICD-8 to the ICD-10 in 1994. Also, outpatient activities were included...
Environmental Autism Research Study Follow-Ups? Let's Even Out Genetic and Environmental Autism Research Funding
Right now, about 10 to 20 times more research dollars are spent on studies of the genetic causes of autism than on environmental ones. We need to even out the funding.Irva Hertz-Picciotto, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute ResearcherRecent years have seen ...
Autism Research: A Breath of Fresh Air
With all the words that are spilled and all the debates that rage over autism cause, cure, treatment and research there is little discussion, let alone effort, to actually find and prove new treatments and cures for autism disorders. It is a breath ...
Why Autism? An Excellent Question
"at this moment some one with autism is being born, the question is W H Y"Kevin Fox, UK autism dad, posted on facebookHopefully, some day in the not too distant future, researchers and public health authorities will ask themselves the question Kevin ...
Vaccine-Autism War Will Never End Unless Comparative Autism Research Is Done
The performance by Dr. Thomas Insel before US Senator Harkin's Senate committee recently did nothing to end the vaccine-autism war. The head of the IACC took absolute, black and white positions on the key issues which mark the vaccine-autism war. H...
Autism Rising: 1 in 100 US Children Have an Autism Disorder
The images above are taken from the autism section of the 2007 US National Survey of Children's Health and indicate that 1 in 100 American children in the 2 to 17 age range have an autism spectrum disorder. That figure is yet another startling i...
Autism Cure Research Underway? Or Have We Given Up?
Parents of autistic children have searched for effective treatment, and preferably a cure, for their autistic children for many years. To date only Applied Behavior Analysis, ABA, enjoys strong evidential support as an intervention that can help aut...
Autism Can't Be Cured Dr. Mottron Takes Autism Speaks Cash For Research
In Why would autism speaks give Laurent Mottron half a million dollars? Autism's Gadfly, Jonathan Mitchell, has highlighted the award by Autism Speaks of almost half a million dollars in autism research funding to Dr. Laurent Mottron. Jonathan ...
Autism and the Joy of Conor on a Beautiful Sunday Morning In May
It was an unbelievably bright and beautiful Sunday morning in Fredericton. Conor and Dad had no choice but to hit the trail and enjoy the view at the river. Conor seemed happy, as usual , with a great big genuine smile on his face. Although I su...
Vaccine-Autism War: National Post Junk Journalism Continues With Jenny McCarthy Attacks
Jenny McCarthy is an easy target.For that reason the lazy, ill informed "journalists" at the National Post continue to attack Ms McCarthy in yet another doomed to fail attempt to quash public discussion of vaccine autism concerns. Meanwhile they co...
Autism's Four C's: Cerebellum, Connectivity, Coordination, Communication
A neuroimaging study comparing High Functioning Autistic children and typically developing children has found that children with autism relied heavily on the supplementary motor area (SMA), a region of the brain important for conscious, effortful m...
New Autism Studies Begin to Fill Out the Genetic Part of the Autism Equation
WebMD reports that three studies published online claim to have identified gene variants involved in about 15% of autism diagnoses. The research subjects were mostly children with autistic disorder diagnoses. Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, director...
Autism Is A Complex Disorder, A Single Causal Mechanism Is Unlikely
There are some who believe, as an article of faith, that autism is 100% genetic.They cling to this belief even though the fact that one identical twin has an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis does not necessarily mean that the other twin will also ...
Autism Science Foundation - Doesn't Science Require An Open Mind?
The Autism Science Foundation, a new purported autism advocacy group, has been formed and announced to the world.I have some concerns about the ASF's approach to advocating for "autism science". The new Foundation has announced that it will focus on...
