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So the BBC news reports that I, parent of an autistic child, am an “infection risk,” from a study in the July 1st Brain, Behavior and Immunity on Parental caregivers of children with developmental disabilities mount a poor antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination.”
(Does that mean autism parents are parasites?)
30 parents of children with developmental disabilities […]
Genetic and environmental factors are frequently cited as causes for autism (and, just to be upfront about it, the genetic studies best explain why my son is autistic). Three recent studies suggest that immunological factors ought also to be considered.
Earlier this month, two studies conducted by researchers at the University of California-Davis M.I.N.D. Institute suggested […]
Researchers at the University of California-Davis M.I.N.D. Institute suggest that some cases of “regressive autism”—-in which a child seems to be developing normally and then loses skills and becomes autistic, in contrast to “early onset autism”—-may be connected to the immune systems of mothers during pregnancy. Antibodies in the blood of mothers of autistic children […]
Researchers at the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California at Davis are the first to use genomic profiling of blood to note differences in autistic children, the January 25th Health News Digest reports. Their hope is that such “gene expression analyses can provide biological evidence of autism, currently diagnosed only through behavioral assessments, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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