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Autism, an extreme challenge to integrative medicine. Part 1: the knowledge base.
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Abstract
Autism, archetype of the autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by socially aloof behavior and impairment of language and social interaction. Its prevalence has surged in recent years. Advanced functional brain imaging has confirmed pervasive neurologic involvement. Parent involvement in autism management has accelerated understanding and treatment. Often accompanied by epilepsy, cognitive deficits, or other neurologic impairment, autism manifests in the first three years of life and persists into adulthood. Its ...
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Autism is treatable: hope that is real, treatments that heal.
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; ...treatments for autism since 1967. ARI...histories of autistic children from over 60...book Infantile Autism: The Syndrome...has caused his autism. There were also...also used with autistic children, but then, as...to treat the autism but to slow the...mother cause of ...
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Autism, MMR Vaccine, HIV Similarities and Growth Factor Cell Signaling.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; ...for 500,000 US autistic children and millions more around the world. Autism cases are rising...per year. (3) Autism is a neuro-biological...general population. Autistic children have developmental...MMR vaccine to autism onset and another...professionals, with autistic ...
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Possible vaccine-autism link triggers congressional probe.
Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review
; ...subsequent development of autism, the evidence linking...congressional hearings after autism developed in his own...association between MMR and autism are that (1) the prevalence...children who developed autism were entirely healthy...up to 80 percent of autistic children ...
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Contributing gene finally found.(Autism)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...gene contributes to autism and that autistic people...Another study found that autistic children were less able to discriminate...mysterious disease. Autism is a disorder that affects...first became aware of autism with the 1988 movie...music, or art. Although autism long has ...
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The Sometimes Son.(fever may temporarily cure autism)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Humanist
; ...clinic, Kevin no longer had autism. Like all neuropsychological disorders, autism ranges in its severity...prevalence and etiology of autism, everyone agrees that autism is usually a lifelong...many higher-functioning autistic children who are verbal. Things...the percentage, but ...
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Autism rate soaring; Award-winning Southboro program's reach is global.(LOCAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...Massachusetts campus with a therapeutic aquatic center. Autism is a complex neurological disorder characterized...routines and repetitive behavior. Because people with autism exhibit symptoms that range from mild to disabling, autism is the most common condition in a group of developmental disorders ...
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Antidepressants May Prove Effective.(with autistic children)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; Many autistic children may suffer from...form of infantile autism actually have...symptoms we see in autism: blunting of the...most idiopathic autistic children are normal, as...developing brains of autistic children offers the hope...Instead of seeing autism as a ...
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Autism: a nutraceutical approach.(REPORT)
Magazine article from: Life Extension
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO AUTISM In the words of Parris Kidd, PhD, Fortunately, because...physicians, researchers, and allied health workers, autism has emerged as a model of successful integrative medicine. (5) Several coordinated approaches to autism are emerging from the ...
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New autism research developments.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News
; ...129.00 Hardcover RC553 Autism may still resemble a mystery...immunology to the incidence of autism, the role and affect of the Internet as an arena of autism research (a study of coping mechanisms of parents with autistic children), neurophysiologic features in autism, adult outcomes ...
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Autism is treatable: an open letter to the FDA.(Guest Editorial)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; ...unacceptable FDA policy on autism which appears on...and treatment of autism, we wish to express...policies regarding autism which appear on...of treatments for autism are grossly exaggerated...large percentage of autistic children can improve markedly...intervention in autism ...
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