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Mental Illnesses ›Autism
Did you know that 1 in 88 children are diagnosed as ‘on the spectrum’ of ASD?
Autism, more commonly referred to as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by clinicians and families, is a biological condition that limits a child’s ability to develop social relationships and communicate. As a result, children often have significant problems in learning and experience many behavioral difficulties. The condition is usually life-long, although overall outcome is improving.
World Autism Awareness Day is Tuesday, April 2, 2012
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An article published August 25th in The New York Times reports that at least one-third of autism cases may be due to inflammatory disease that begins in the womb. The evidence is based on a 20-year population-wide study...
Work that was done as early as the 1990s has found new reinforcement with a new study published online in the journal Nature on August 22, 2012. In 2001, four-time NARSAD Grantee, Dolores Malaspina, M.D., M.P.H. published...
A new study published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry on July 2 found that a family history of schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder is a risk factor for autism.
Patrick F. Sullivan, M.D., Professor...
NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grantee, James F. Leckman, M.D., professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center, is one of the researchers talking part in an ongoing, large-scale study...
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