What causes Autism?
Autism had dramatically grown in the past fifty years. The US documented that 19 out of 10,000 individuals had autism in 1992. This rose to 1 in 150 in 2002, fo...
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Why Are We Only Treating Half of Autism?
In the United States today, approximately 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ASD is a disorder of the brain that can include, b...
Oxytocin is More than Just a Love Hormone: Could it be the Future for ASD?
It isn’t really possible to narrow autism down to one specific difference or symptom, really it is a combination of many different things. Every single case is ...
Who Done It? When Vaccines Plead Not Guilty to Being the Source of Autism
Autism is on the rise in the United States. The prevalence has increased from 1 in 110 in 2006 to 1 in 68 in 2010. This increase has led to more awareness surr...
Neurochemistry is Cool
Signing up for the neurochemistry class was the best decision I made during registration week of the second semester of my senior year. First, I got my senior c...
Autism and Autism Research On the Rise
In the past decade the prevalence of autism has approximately doubled in diagnoses for children. In 2006, 1 in 110 children were diagnosed in the United States,...
Breaking down Autism
Introduction to Autism Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of various developmental disabilities defined by impaired social interaction and communication,...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
In a study between the years of 2006-2008, it was determined that 1 in 6 American children had a developmental disability ranging from the mild to more severe. ...
Obesity and the Brain
Hypothalamus It has been recently discovered that unlike inflammation in the in the peripheral tissues, inflammation in the brain due to high fat intake occurs ...
What Came First: Obesity or the Brain Disease?
As we all know, obesity is a danger to this country but it may be in more ways than one. There are the physical dangers that come with obesity that are pretty w...