“The Environment as an etiologic factor in autism: a new direction for research” by EA London was published online by ehp, Environmental Health Perspectives, in 2000. Today, 12 years later, it remains the direction not taken as “autism research” continues down the road of genetic obsession and largely ignores environmental
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: A Focused Environmental Autism Research Strategy Is Needed
If you have a child who is severely affected by an autism disorder, whose ability to understand the world is limited, who wanders into dangerous traffic, lakes or rivers, is prone to seizures or engages in serious self injurious behavior autism is not just an alternative way of thinking or
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Strategic Research of Environmental Causes of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
In A Research Strategy to Discover the Environmental Causes of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, an editorial in the current issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, authors Philip J. Landrigan, Luca Lambertini and Linda S. Birnbaum make a compelling argument for strategically researching environmental causes of autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities. In the process
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