Autism and Stress: Quit Stressing Out Mom!
Autism disorder has a wide spectrum of severity ranging from high functioning to low functioning individuals. This disorder is characterized as affecting commun...
Month: November 2014
The Environmental Autism
Autism is a disorder that most of us have heard of and are aware of some of the behavioral issues that can accompany someone diagnosed with this disorder. Auti...
Mom and Dad: Our Role in Autism
Mom and Dad: Our Role in Autism Autism is a developmental disorder that is characterized by impairment in communication and social behavior. But there is no sin...
How Mom and Dad Cause Autism
Autism, a developmental disorder that has its roots in both genetic as well as environmental factors is characterized by learning and social behavior impairment...
Vaccinate Your Children
This week we discussed autism in our neurochemistry course. Most of our discussions have revealed this year that the diseases and disorders in the brain are in...
Putting the Puzzle Pieces of Autism Together
Autism spectrum disorder is the term used to describe a range of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by communication difficulties, social impairm...
A Disorder of Growing Uncertainty: Autism
Global rates of autism have been increasing, and although we have identified several genes and environmental factors with development of the disease, the ultima...
Incidence of Autism linked to Stress?
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by impairment in communication and social behavior and by repetitive behaviors. Lik...
Autism: An Environmental Perspective
Autism is a spectral disorder that is becoming commonly diagnosed. In fact, 1 in 68 children are diagnosed as part of the spectrum. This brings up the question ...
Obesity: What happens when you can't trust your gut
Obesity is frequently demonized as a disease of laziness – one that people could avoid if they would only get off the couch and eat healthier. Recent research, ...