Autism and other health related epidemics
I am just coming back from an Autism Research Institute Think Tank. I was happy to see many old friends there and to make new ones. The Think Tank has […]
Tag Archives: prevalence
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 […]
AN OPEN LETTER TO STEVE SILBERMAN re NEUROTRIBES
I first met Peter a couple of years ago at an Autism Research Institute Think Tank. At the Think Tank Peter impressed everybody with his knowledge, specially about biochemical pathways. […]
How to follow the rising prevalence rates of autism: an epidemic or a health-related disaster?
Since 1988 the World Health Organization in collaboration with the Centre (the european term for center) for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters has kept a database (Emergency Events Database […]
The rising prevalence of autism: lessons learned from the Flynn effect
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 […]
Autism in Figures
I recently had the opportunity to exchange emails with Carolina Mesko, the content manager for the site Nursedegree.net. This organization has a group of staff members that did research to […]
