Facing Autism in New Brunswick

This blog is focused on autism disorders, very closely related conditions including intellectual disability and epilepsy.  It is about m...

Several years ago it appeared that a new paradigm for understanding autism disorders was emerging, one which would allow greater underst...

" The Environment as an etiologic factor in autism: a new direction for research "  by EA London was published online by ehp, E...

"These new findings are in line with other recent observations supporting both environmental and genetic contributions to ASD, with the...

Scared by althetrainer The " it's gotta be genetic " gang is running scared over the recent twins study which confirms the pa...

Genetic autism research has struck out. After decades of standing at the  plate and swinging away with public and private autism research fu...

Is it possible for public health authorities to re-examine their rigid assumptions about autism disorders and if so how long does it take?...

What better time of year to  release autism news that you don't want a lazy, ill informed mainstream media to cover than Christmas with ...

Last evening I watched a very disturbing documentary on CBC about the harmful impact on children, particularly male children, of common che...

There are some who believe, as an article of faith, that autism is 100% genetic. They cling to this belief even though the fact that one id...

David Kirby has published, at the Age of Autism , a letter from an official in the Office of CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding in which it...

In Investigating the Environmental Origins of Autism Scientific American discusses whether environmental factors might be contributing fac...

The rancorous debates about a possible mercury autism link usually focus on vaccines and the mercury component of some vaccine preservatives...

1. Non-environmental factors explain some of the exponential increases in rates of autism diagnoses. 2a. Therefore non-environment...

I do not get too deeply involved in the blogger-internet debates over whether thimerosal causes, or contributes to autism. As a father...

A study reported in the January 2008 issue of Genomics, Gene expression changes in children with autism, has found that a group of genes ...

The genetic bases of autism dominated autism news the previous week with the publication of the Chromosome 16p11.2 study in the New England...

One of the most succinct arguments in support of an environmental theory of autism can be found in a fact cited by autism expert Simon Baron...

One of the most consistent points of controversy, amongst the many that dominate world discussion of autism issues, is the extent to which a...

The focus on a mercury based preservative in some vaccines has taken public attention away from other commonly found toxic substances as pos...