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  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …ial social aspect of this change, and the one thing that might, when it comes to autism, elevate the DSM-5 above the level of doorstop. [Image credit: Dave Bullock, UK, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license.]…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

  • The path from science to alarmism: How science gets twisted before it gets to you

    …he spectrum. So take all that with a whole jar full of salt and you’re still looking at, overall, no connection with smoking. If anything, the data would indicate smoking has LESS autism rather than more. After this there are 2 papers on the same chemical. One of them does not contain the word “autism” anywhere. (One of its references has it, but nowhere does it appear in the text of their paper.) The second paper is better. It focuses on the che…

    Authored by on May 4, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Autism Research Foundation

    …e last two years we have provided funding for autism stakeholders (parents, individuals with autism, teachers, students, etc) to attend the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). All donations made today, February 29, 2012, will go directly to our IMFAR Travel Grants program, helping us provide more scholarships to IMFAR 2012 in Toronto where they will share their real world autism experience with scientists. These stakeholders will t…

    Authored by on February 29, 2012

  • Science, health, medical news freaking you out? Do the Double X Double-Take first

    …wo are opinion. Also watch for “scientific meeting” and “conference.” That means that this information was presented without peer review at a scientific meeting. It hasn’t been vetted in any way. 3. Look at the words in the article. If what you’re reading contains words like “link,” “association,” “correlation,” or “risk,” then what the article is describing is a…

    Authored by on April 27, 2012

  • Autism is not the monster

    had three children. With the first two, sure, there were those nights when my husband had to take over to keep me from fleeing to Mexico, never to be seen again. But with our third, it was different. I became one of the 10 or 20  (possibly far more) of every 100 mothers to experience postpartum depression, a persistent, intractable trough of hopelessness, a place where the mind refuses to let in any light. Of these, a small percentage can descend…

    Authored by on March 20, 2013

  • Congress Is Killing Medical Research

    …a shutdown, ended in March. It included a 10% across-the-board budget cut to everything. That includes most of the critical medical research in the U.S. Every year, many NIH projects end and many others begin. (Most only last 3 or 4 years.) But not this year. Because of the budget shenanigans, NIH has been forced to cut or delay funding to almost all new projects. In other words, biomedical research that has already gone through rigorous peer rev…

    Authored by on March 6, 2013

  • Crowdfunding on the Brain: Finding Biomarkers for Early Autism Diagnosis

    …n holds up with an increased number of study participants, the implications could be quite significant for autism research.       Preliminary data from the Darie Lab shows that there are saliva proteins showing a 20X or greaterdifference  between ASD (ovals) versus sibling non-ASD controls (rectangles). If you decide to kick in some funds, your good deed will not go unrewarded. As a thank-you for contributing, the Darie Lab has o…

    Authored by on December 3, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Breast Cancer Research and Education

    …ith their health care professionals, family, friends, etc.  Young Survival Coalition Contrary to popular belief, breast cancer affects younger women too.  In fact, I have two friends that were diagnosed before the age of 30.  The mission of this organization is to help scientists and physicians better serve young women affected by breast cancer.  National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. The mission of the National Breast Cancer Foundatio…

    Authored by on February 7, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • About that 1 in 50 autism number

    r 63,967 children; for 2011-2012, that number was slightly higher at 65,556. From 2007 to 2013, parent-reported autism prevalence increased significantly in all age groups in the 6-17 range and increased for boys from 1.8% to 3.23%. Girls also showed an increase, but not as dramatic, from 0.49% to 0.70%. Autism among children ages 14 to 17 was up more than 1%, compared to children in the youngest, 6 to 9 age group (0.5%). In 2007, this older grou…

    Authored by on April 29, 2013

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