Autism-World

In South Korea, it was popular that parents take babies born for only weeks to learn english. Recently, it’s fashionable to make babies learn yoga, philosophy, even walking. These inappropriate early education are not healthy for infants, after having too much lessons, many babies display autistic tendencies. Doctor Sun from Institute of Cognitive emotional and […]

Babies from one and a half month old to two months old are very sensitive to television. Eleven months old babies can understand certain sencearios in TV, once they sit before the TV, they would be very quiet and watching TV. However, it’s not good for the baby to watch too much TV, the infant […]

There have been reliable studies done showing a link between pitocin given to induce or speed up labor and autism.
It is important to remember though that correlation does not equal causation.
Some researchers believe that the child would have been born with Autism with or without the pitocin, but that the the need for the pitocin […]

The signs of autism are not noticed until after 12-18 months, because everyone’s brain develops the same until around that age. At that point, the autistic’s brain will begin to develop differently.
Vaccinations have been blamed for this because they are given around this age. There have been lots of studies and research dollars poured into […]

Researchers can’t yet say for sure whether autism is genetic, contracted pre-natally or in infancy. However, that more and more researchers are leaning towards a genetic explanation.
We are not sure what causes autism yet. It might be genetic or environmental, generally, boys are more prone to autism than girls, we don’t know why. Some researches […]

There is no actual proof that autism develops because of the MMR vaccine. Most professionals agree that more research needs to be done. They also believe that people are born autistc or with the potential to become autistic; this is a neurological condition(not psychological) with many factors possibly contributing. (hereditary, chemical, disease) More research, again.
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The causes of autism are not yet known. However, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetic vulnerabilities to environmental factors.
While there is disagreement about the magnitude, nature, and mechanisms for such environmental triggers, researchers have found seven genes prevalent among individuals diagnosed as autistic.
Some estimate that autism occurs in as many as one United […]

Thimerosal is an inorganic mercury compound that is metabolized to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate and has been present since the 1930’s as a preservative in some vaccines and pharmaceutical products to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination. Here’s some facts on how is Thimerosal related to Autism:

For decades, ethylmercury was used extensively in medical products ranging from […]

Change in diagnostic standards - Broadened awareness - and maybe there is an increase in children being born to older fathers.1. Autism used to mean people that would be institutionalized, could never have meaningful jobs and would hardly even know how to talk (Like Rainman at best)Now the definition is so broad it includes people […]

Pharmaceutical companies stopped producing most childhood vaccines with thimerosal in 2001. Only some influenza doses are still manufactured with a trace amount of the preservative. If they had caused some of the cases of autism, we should be seeing a significant drop about now.Inspite of anecdotal stories, at least most of the children with autism, […]

There are researches claim that the rise of TV could be a reason of the rising of autism nowadays.But i can’t agree with them.
If I showed that cell phone usage increased just as autism increased, would that mean cell phones caused autism.What about rap music? Rap music had become a commercially popular music genre and […]

Research has found out that mercury in the vaccines may cause autism. Did you know that before they started with the vaccination programs there were no known cases of autism?
Thimerosal is a preserving agent used in all vaccination solutions and to those susceptible to heavy-metal and specifically mercury poisoning it decreases the levels of certain […]

The suggestion is that in males and females with autism; the brain is essentially extremely “male” caused by an excess of testosterone.
Note, not the person, just the brain. The brain has these features as a result of the wrong amounts of hormones during development. What I want to know is, since autism is supposedly a […]

According to Temple Grandin symptoms that resemble frontal lobe damage are a big part of autism. In other words, a person with autism shows symptoms that are similar to someone with undeveloped frontal lobes, even though the autistic person does not have a smaller or damaged frontal lobe.Grandin says: “…even though autistic people have a […]

It has been shown that autism can be genetic - there are families that have children who are all on the autism spectrum. The problem is that even though scientists believe that it is genetic, they now have to find which specific gene carries the “autism” and find out how it is different from the […]

Rett Syndrome,which is in the autistic spectrum was found to be genetic in ‘99 and there is actually a genetic test for it .
It is believed that autism is genetic because of its similarities to Rett Syndrome and that it tends to run in families.
Yes, a “cure” is possible and Rett Syndrome symptoms have been […]

Autistic spectrum disorder is a very complex disorder, the causes of which are still not clearly known. However, there is a clear genetic link to the disorder, as siblings of persons with autism run much higher risk of being diagnosed with autism, compared to the general population. It is usually considered that autism is caused […]

There is a strong genetic component to autism, and there appears to be different genes leading to autism in girls than boys.“It is highly unlikely that there is only one gene responsible for autism,” said Schellenberg. “There may be four to six major genes and 20 to 30 others that might contribute to autism to […]

Q: Can autism or pdd be caused by baby formuls?
Answer:
No one is really sure what is causing the “epidemic” of autism cases.I doubt it’s caused by baby formula…that’s just some vitamins and lactation protiens.The world is full of hazards…perhaps a combination of environmental factors are sharing a vector and causing this surge in autistic cases.

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There are theories that the MMR vaccines used by the Military health system had higher levels of mercury (as a preservative, to extend the shelf life, since they were not used as much as the vaccines in the civilian world) — and the mercury caused children to have some sort of respiratory arrest or incident, […]

Q: I am beginning to think there is a link. Most autistic children that I see have older/slim mothers that breastfeed. Could there be something the mother is doing/not doing to unintentionally cause their child to be autistic. I see some mothers worrying about their bodies after the pregnancy.
Could the infant not be getting enough […]

Q:It is fast approaching my son’s first birthday which means he will be getting his 1 year vaccine - MMR. I have heard from too many sources recently that this vaccine has been linked to autism.
Is there any truth to this? Does you have any websites that I can research this information from? Only serious […]

Q:Does anyone know where i can find a punnet square showing the inheritance of autism?
Answer:
The factors that cause autism is not yet fully known. That’s why it’s pictorial symbol is an “unfinished puzzle”.
Until recently [say last 50 years], autism was thought to have generated due to bad parenting and abuse [i.e. external factors]. However, very […]

Evidence from many studies suggests that inherited factors are largely responsible for the occurrence of autism related disorders. However, it is equally clear that genetics cannot fully account for the development of autism.
The current theory among autism genetics researchers supports the idea of “complex” inheritance. This means that multiple genetic factors are likely to be […]

What: Pregnant women and new mothers who already have one child with autism joined UC Davis researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they announced funding of $7.5 million for UC Davis autism research. Part of the funding will go to a new autism […]

The National Institutes of Health will intensify its efforts to find the causes of autism and identify new treatments for the disorder, through a new research program.The Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program represents a consolidation of two existing programs, the Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment (STAART) and Collaborative Programs of Excellence in […]

The doctor who caused a worldwide drop in childhood immunisation nearly ten years ago by suggesting there was a link between the measles, mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism is facing a disciplinary hearing with his two fellow researchers. Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professors Simon Murch and John Walker Smith, are accused of serious professional misconduct […]

1. To develop, by a consensus of Lyme knowledgeable and Autism knowledgeable physicians, practice parameters and guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of Lyme Induced Autism and associated diseases.
2. To educate the autism and lyme communities about the link between Lyme disease and autism. Educate them on available treatment and testing methods.
3. To help […]

One thing is for certain, autism lyme connections do exist. For those of you reading this that are unfamiliar with lyme disease, it is a primarily tick borne illness that stems from a bacteria called Borrelia. This type of bacteria is very hard to detect as it is generally a spirochete, a form of bacteria […]

A new study links autism to subtle changes in a wide range of genes. The finding, published in the journal Science, suggests that autism has many causes, and that whatever triggers autism usually occurs long before birth.The study, led by Jonathan Sebat, a geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, examined the genes […]