What can we learn from the health outcomes of the 1918 pandemic?
Cheryl Widman is a newly minted PhD in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A former Chicago Public Schools math and Special Education teacher at Title 1 […]
Tag Archives: epigenetics
Heritable Effects of General Anesthesia
What is causing the staggering increase in autism prevalence? So far research has yielded few answers. In this recent letter to leaders at the NIH, research philanthropist Jill Escher, who […]
Twinning and Epigenetics in Autism
Many twin studies have been performed in order to explore the role that environmental and genetic influences may have in the development of autism. Studies usually entail a comparison of […]
The Complacency Monster that Ate Autism
The following blog was written by Jill Escher, president of the Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area. Jill is an autism research philanthropist (Escher Fund for Autism), a provider of […]
Abstracts of the Autism Research Institute’s Think Tank April 12-14, 2013
Attached are summaries of presentations at the resent Autism Research Institute’s Think Tank. The same was held in Baltimore from April 12-14, 2013.In-keeping with the spirit of the Think Tank […]
The Triple Hit Hypothesis of Autism
This blog follows one of my previously published ideas stating that autism results from a threshold phenomenon where symptoms manifest themselves when 3 factors impinge, to various degree, on the […]
Cortical Chauvinism 