Walking With Conor After IMFAR Autism Research Convention
IMFAR was quite an experience. Very intense. Learned lots, saw lots and met some interesting people. Spent a lot more time indoors then I usually would at this time of…
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Autism, Intellectual Disability & Environment: Children of Immigrants in Sweden At Greater Risk of Developing Autism with Intellectual Disability
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…