Posted by Susan Moffitt on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Lately, there’s been much conflicting news about autism rates. A recent study from Britain contends that there is no epidemic, there’s just a great many undiagnosed adults walking around. Yet after conducting a study in South Korea, The American Journal of Psychiatry subsequently found 1 out of 38 kids to have autism, much higher than [...]
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Posted by Susan Moffitt on Monday, April 25th, 2011
Asperger’s Syndrome (or Asperger Syndrome or AS) is a form of high functioning autism, characterized by obsessive interests and a difficulty in making friends. While commonly characterized as a “mild” form of autism, it is devastating in its own right. Starting in the 1960s, scientists theorized that boys inherited only one male X chromosome from [...]
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