Swedish Flag by Matti Mattila A major Swedish study offers uncomfortable news to the DSM-5 team trying to pretend there is no relationship between autism and the intellectual disability which affects the vast majority of those with classic Autistic Disorder. It will also be disconcerting to those who devoutly believe
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: 2011 Autism Research Game Changer: California Autism Twins Study (CATS) And Gene Environment Interaction
Joachim Hallmayer MD, Stanford University Following is the press release I received setting out what Autism Speaks considers to be the top 10 autism research achievements of 2011. Personally I do not think every one of these projects should be on a list of top 10 autism research achievements but
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research Studies Exclude Low Functioning Autistic Participants
Discrimination against persons with low functioning autism disorders takes many forms. It is particularly rampant in the autism research world where studies purporting to inform us about autism almost invariably exclude low functioning autistic participants. Conclusions are again being drawn about persons with autism spectrum disorders based on a study which
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Parents Annoyed with Useless, Trivial Cambridge Autism Research
Is Cambridge University Professor Simon Baron-Cohen’s latest “autism research” useless? Autism Eye reports that Autism Eye magazine editor Gillian Loughran “has been inundated with phone calls from parents expressing their annoyance at what they see as the latest trivia to emerge from Cambridge.“ The impugned research examined the professions of
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Return of the Bad Parents Cause Autism Nightmare Monster
“DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, the situation with fathers is, is that increasingly—there was a study recently that showed an increasing number of men are having postpartum depression, as well. And the main role of the father, of course, would be to suppor…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: President Obama Continues Autism Hope, Signs Combating Autism Reauthorization Act Into Law
Autism hope for the future lies in autism research and the US leads the world in autism research.
I can not say it often enough. Thank you America. Thank you President Obama.
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: YES! US Senate Passes CARA, Combating Autism Reauthorization Act!
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina
Excellent! The US Senate has now passed CARA, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act, and it should soon be headed to President Obama’s office where it has already been indicated the Presid…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM5 Exclusion? Autism Research Already Excludes Intellectually Disabled
“All children had normal IQ”
Abstract – Methods, Cheung C. et al, MRI study of minor physical
anomaly in childhood autism implicates aberrant neurodevelopment in infancy
I have written several times on the exclusi…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism, Genes & Environment: Why It Took So Long for the Genetic Autism Myth To Die
Studies of twins have established that it is not 100 per cent genetic, since even among identical twins, when one has autism, the likelihood of both twins having autism is only about 60 per cent. This means there must also be an environmental compon…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism & Environment Study:Genetics Only Autism Gang Running Scared, Creates Faux Controversy
Scared by althetrainer
The “it’s gotta be genetic” gang is running scared over the recent twins study which confirms the pardigm shift in autism causation from 100% genetic to a gene-environment interaction model and which places much greater emphasis …