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Autism Science Foundation Podcast: Brain tissue: What has it done for autism lately?

September 7, 2017by m0casa02 Leave a comment

A podcast produced by Alycia Halladay, MD is available through the internet: http://asfpodcast.org/?tag=manny-casanova. The same stresses the need for postmortem research and some of the results that my laboratory has […]

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A Cloud That Never Will Go Away: Rethinking Dr. Asperger’s Subjective Conclusions through the Context of History and Culture

June 20, 2016by m0casa02 3 Comments

The following is a blog written by one of our readers, Ms. Claudia Mazzuco. Ms.Mazzucco is a writer, researcher, historian, editor and teacher of the history of golf. She was […]

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Is there an abnormal regulation of the immune response in autism?

January 21, 2015by m0casa02 Leave a comment

One month ago the online journal Nature Communication published a study claiming that inflammation is a hallmark of autism. The study, a conjoint effort between Johns Hopkins and the University […]

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Our Latest Publication: Genetic studies indicate that neural induction and early neuronal maturation are disturbed in autism

November 27, 2014by m0casa02 Leave a comment

This is our latest publication in Frontiers (see http://bit.ly/1HmFfnV).  The idea for this study came from the large number of genes currently identified as conferring risk for autism.  In all, […]

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All Roads Once Led to Rome… But Do All Roads Lead to Autism??

July 6, 2013by m0casa02 6 Comments

What do autism and cancer have in common? There are many false results in genetic studies of cancer research and these are similar to those ones reported for autism. All […]

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Los factores geneticos y ambientales en el autismo

June 26, 2013by m0casa02 1 Comment

¿Cuánto de una condición puede ser explicada en su totalidad por factores ambientales y cuánto puede explicarse por factores genéticos? Esta ha sido una polémica obsoleta dentro de las ciencias […]

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The rising prevalence of autism: lessons learned from the Flynn effect

June 24, 2013by m0casa02 11 Comments

Average IQ scores during the last 8 decades have increased by some 25 point. This is an incredibly huge gain observable throughout the whole world, including developing countries.  If you […]

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Our Latest Study: The Link between Mobile Element Content and Autism-risk Genes

June 9, 2013by m0casa02 Leave a comment

Why are there so many risk genes for autism?  Can we explain the large number based on a commonality?  Despite the push for heterogeneity, our latest result suggests that a […]

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