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Time Magazine includes autism research on Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009 List
17 hours ago ago from Wellspring Blog
On December 8th, Time magazine released a list of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009. Named number 7 on the list was “New Research on Autism”. Time cited the largest-ever genetic study of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), published in April in the journal Nature, by a group led by Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. That study identified DNA variations ...
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20 hours ago ago from Gawker
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17 hours ago ago from About.com Autism
Ari Ne'eman is the founder of the Autism Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and a well-known activist on behalf of the rights of individuals on the autism spectrum. He's also a controversial figure because of his views on "neurodiversity" - the perspective that autism is just one of many different ways of thinking, rather than a disability or disease to be cured. According to its mission statement, ASAN's "...activities include public policy ...
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21 hours ago ago from Facing Autism in New Brunswick
"My own hunch is that the NIH and NIMH will not change from within; the senior practitioners of the " it's gotta be genetic " model have too much influence. Just as Semmelweiss and his data were suppressed, so too will the NIH/NIMH autism-research insiders continue to act against the the growing body of new data in autism; the NIH's pro-genetic old-timers will cling to their paradigm and its funding. As a result, change within the NIH and ...
Related contentLate Thursday Thought (12/17/2009)
1 hour, 43 minutes ago ago from Cherished Cinema
Hello all. Sorry this came so late, I spent the majority of my day working through films on my daunting list that grew longer and longer as the semester grew on. I have also finally started on the third season of Dexter. I hope to catch up by the end of January. Fortunately, it’s only twenty-four episodes and they are extremely addictive. For instance, I flew threw three episodes tonight (even with the movies and other TV I watched ...
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