Genetic Counseling in Autism
Genetics play an important role in autism. Twin studies suggest that the heritability of autism falls in the range of 36 to 95%. Similarly striking is the fact that the […]
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The Cause of Autism: Part 2 The Basics
My previous blog served to introduce the possibility of a defect in brain development that could explain many of the observed pathological features of autism (see http://bit.ly/1aM5KFu ). In it […]
The Cause of Autism: Part 1 Introduction
I know that it is presumptious to write an article about what may be the cause of autism. There are many individuals that have their own take on this particular […]
Caveats to the Nature-Nurture Debate on Autism
How much of a condition can be explained by environmental influences and how much can be explained by genetic factors? This has been an outdated polemic within the life sciences […]
Cortical Chauvinism 