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IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
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When Engineers' Genes Collide Could modern patterns of marriage be concentrating the genes that predispose people to autism?   |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006 |
Engineers and Autism A new theory links systemizing, engineers, and autism, a developmental disorder that has become more common in recent decades. |
Wired
December 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Geek Syndrome Autism -- and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome -- is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame? |
Nurse Practitioner
April 2010
McCravy et al. |
Speak the language of autism Autism affects 1 in 110 children and 1 in 70 boys in the United States. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Asperger's Syndrome Asperger's syndrome is actually named after an Austrian physician, Hans Asperger, who first described the strange disorder in 1944. Like classical autism, A.S. belongs to a class of disorders known as autism spectrum disorders. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
David Wolman |
The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know The language of autism. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2002
Prater & Zylstra |
Autism: A Medical Primer Autistic disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder resulting in social, language, or sensorimotor deficits, occurs in approximately seven of 10,000 persons. Early detection and intervention significantly improve outcome. |
| AskMen.com |
Can You Recover From Autism? Skeptics question the phenomenon, but a small, provocative study suggests that at least 10 percent of children with autism overcome the disorder by age 9. |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2002 |
What You Should Know About Autism What is autism?... How can I tell if my child is autistic?... How is autism treated?... Where can I get more information?... |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2010
Ellen Gibson |
The Hunt for an Autism Drug Armed with fresh medical insights, drug companies are redoubling their efforts to address the disease's complex causes. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 9, 2009
Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
David Kushner |
The Autistic Hacker Gary McKinnon hacked thousands of government computers |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Special Consideration Advisors help parents of special needs children tackle unique planning challenges. |
Salon.com
August 2, 2000
Lesli Mitchell |
Secrets and lies Is the astonishing rise in autism a medical mystery or a pharmaceutical shame? |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
Anti-Vaccination Groups Dealt Blow as Lancet Study is Retracted In what will likely be a big blow to the anti-vaccination movement, The Lancet medical journal has retracted the 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that originally sparked the uproar over whether vaccines are linked to autism. |
Salon.com
August 2, 2000
Arthur Allen |
A recipe for disaster While nobody knows the origin of autism, many researchers worry that linking it to childhood vaccines could be a very dangerous theory. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Madeline Drexler |
Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Susan Karlin |
Carebots A scientist creates robots that help children. |
Wired
March 2002 |
Rants & Raves Network Effects... The Autistic Spectrum... Busting the Copyright Buster... The Innovator's New Dilemma... etc. |
Wired
December 2003
Steve Silberman |
The Key to Genius Autistic savants are born with miswired neurons - and extraordinary gifts. The breakthrough science behind our new understanding of the brain |
Psychology Today
Nov/Dec 2006
Carlin Flora |
The Girl With a Boy's Brain Kiriana Cowansage can run complex neuroscience experiments and sketch beautiful portraits. She melts at the sight of an animal, but she balks at the concept of love. Such paradoxes define women with Asperger's syndrome. |
Chemistry World
September 13, 2012
Ian Le Guillou |
Hope for autism treatments Two reports in Science over the past week point the way to potential treatments for some forms of autism. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Jeff Schlegel |
The Case For Special Needs Planning for the disabled can be a tricky -- yet rewarding -- practice area for advisors. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies Led by celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, the anti-vaccine movement continues to vehemently oppose mainstream science's overwhelming consensus that vaccines do not cause developmental disorders. |
Salon.com
April 13, 1999
Arthur Allen |
Heal thyself.com Heal thyself.com: As wired patients go online for medical help, the question is: Can a little knowledge be a dangerous thing? |
Salon.com
April 13, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Inoculated into oblivion When families hit the Capitol last week, they demanded answers about the source of their children's autism. |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
A Special Dedication Provider Group is committed to helping parents with disabled children financially provide for their offspring. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 14, 2008
Martha Lagace |
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing Software testing requires superb powers of concentration combined with tolerance (even preference) for routine tasks. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Toddi Gutner |
Special Needs, Crushing Costs Parents with disabled kids have some options but must also dig deep into their own pockets. |
Wired
October 2009
Drake Bennett |
Thorkil Sonne: Recruit Autistics Autistics were born to be software engineers. |
Reason
July 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Needling Vaccines A federal vaccine court rules that the preponderance of the evidence suggested that a 9-year-old girl's autism was caused by her childhood vaccinations. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 25, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen. |
Investment Advisor
November 17, 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Special Needs, Special Designation If your clients have special needs children, you might want to consider this in the future |
Scientific American
June 2009
Melinda Wenner |
Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease. |
Salon.com
January 6, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek |
"American Normal" by Lawrence Osborne People with the rare condition called Asperger Syndrome can be brilliant, but they're unable to read the human face or the simplest social cue. |
Chemistry World
June 18, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
New evidence links air pollution with autism A study suggests that the presence in the air of pollutants from diesel exhaust, as well as mercury, lead, manganese and dichloromethane were associated with the elevated risk. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Protein Precision in the Brain with CSF Two causes of autism arise from opposite cellular mechanisms. Too much or too little protein production at the synapse between neurons can cause autism and intellectual disability. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems. |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2007
Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004 |
FYI ... Special Kids Speech & Skill Development Resources Special Kids Speech & Skill Development Resources has launched a new Web site to help students with developmental, cognitive and learning disabilities. |
Wired
September 2001
Sara Solovitch |
The Citizen Scientists United by the Net and emboldened by their numbers, parents of desperately ill children are funneling millions into research, building vast genetic databases, and rewriting the rules of the medical industry.... |
AskMen.com
August 22, 2012 |
Male Fertility Age Older men have a greater chance of having offspring who develop autism or schizophrenia, the study found. The older you are, the more random mutations in your genetic material. Yikes. |
