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Someone please determine the real prevalence of autism.

Posted November 16, 2015

Media coverage of the new CDC study focused on the new study which used a telephone survey for another prevalence estimate of autism.  This one closer...

Is ADHD part of the spectrum diagnosis of ASD?

Posted November 9, 2015

A recent study examining some people who lost an autism diagnosis (and were possibly reclassified) reinvigorates the idea that attention deficit hyperactivity...

Treatments for social reward in autism: inject it, snort it, or possibly smoke it.

Posted November 2, 2015

This week saw two new studies on the "love hormone" called oxytocin.  In the first, the IV drip for oxytocin is replaced by a nasal spray.  The results...

What if it isn’t autism?

Posted October 26, 2015

Many times signs and symptoms of autism may be seen prior to 3 years of age, but a diagnosis is not made.  It may not be autism, but what is it?  Studying...

Sisters, sisters, there never were such devoted sisters

Posted October 19, 2015

A special podcast this week on the Autism Sisters Project, in partnership with Icahn School of Medicine.  I talk about how the idea came about, what...