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 […]
Tag Archives: epigenetics
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 […]
