No Mandatory Screening for Autism?
Recently the US Preventive Services Task Force provided an update on the necessity for screening young children seen in primary care for autism. The panel did not provide a recommendation […]
Tag Archives: autism symptoms
The Thinking Process in Autism
A new research study from the Universities of East Anglia and Stirling suggests that people with autistic traits provide fewer responses when generating solutions to a problem but otherwise the […]
Oxidative Stress and Autism
Oxidative stress, defined as an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the body’s ability to detoxify these chemicals or repair the damage caused by them, has […]
Recommendations on screening for ASD
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) publishes recommendations on screening for ASD – the research and advocacy communities respond Reblogged from autismsciencefoundation August 3, 2015 At a time when 1 […]
Artificial sweeteners, sugar substitutes, and autism
There are many conjectures about the putative role of artificial sweeteners, also called nonnutritive sweeteners, as a risk factor for autism. These conjectures arise primarily from blogs within the Internet […]
The Hidden Difficulties of Autistic Children in School
One of our readers is the blogger for Planet Autism. We seem to have very similar ideas and understandings of the condition and have enjoyed lengthy conversations behind the blogs. […]
Forecasting the Economic Burden of Autism in 2015 and 2025 in the United States
The following is an abstract from a Brief Report written by J Paul Leigh and Juan Du. It recently appeared published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders in […]
Brain Organoids and Autism
There is no such thing as a cell culture of single neurons. Neurons in order to survive and differentiate need the presence of other neurons, so a threshold number of […]
Lessons in Late Onset or Regressive Autism: Cortical Dysplasia-Focal Epilepsy Syndrome (CDFES)
A few months ago I wrote a blog about Dravet syndrome (http://bit.ly/1IOKxum ). In this condition a genetic defect impairs the normal development of the brain thus giving rise to […]
Fever and autism
Several years ago a number of parents told Andrew (Andy) Zimmerman that their autistic children did better when they had a fever. These anecdotal reports on improvement were common and […]
