Autism News

Google News reports: KOMO, WA - Jul 6, 2005
... freaking out. Sarah's spent the past five days locked up there. And she has Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism. "She was ...

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ScienceDaily.com reports: Some people think we are witnessing an autism epidemic. However, according to a new report published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, there are three good reasons not to believe in this so-called epidemic.

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Jaiden.net reports: I think you could quite easily teach a class on the logical fallacies committed in the autism/mercury debate - fallacies committed quite equally on both sides.

Hopefully the result of this increased publicity is some decent research by those with the means to do it right (read: NIH). Maybe then we could finally get on with it (regardless of the outcome of said research).

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Google News reports: Portland Press Herald, ME - Jun 15, 2005
... Jan's parents say that his behavior was a manifestation of Asperger's syndrome, which is a form of autism, and his suspension was a violation of his civil ...

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Jaiden.net reports: Posted today (despite the date at the bottom of the article) at RollingStone.com:

Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. "You can play with this all you want," Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results "are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from...

Google News reports: Chicago Daily Southtown, IL - 1 hour ago
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a son's diagnosis of autism became catalysts for Chris McNeil, of Frankfort, who announced his candidacy for state ...

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Google News reports: eMaxHealth.com, NC - 10 minutes ago
A discovery that may someday help to explain human social behavior and disorders such as autism has been made in a species of pudgy rodents by researchers ...

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Google News reports: EurekAlert, DC - 4 hours ago
... A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study links regions of two chromosomes to susceptibility for a type of autism characterized by regression ...

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Google News reports: Money Plans, India - 3 hours ago
... basis of social interactions, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Montreal have shown that individuals with autism display abnormal ...

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Google News reports: ZDNet - 3 hours ago
... such as perception, thought and memory and to illuminate how malfunctions in the brain's circuitry can lead to problems such as autism or schizophrenia. ...

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