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An article in the September 10th New England Journal of Medicine entitled Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes describes the associations between a microdeletion at 1q21.1 and impairments including mental retardation associated with microcephaly, cardiac abnormalities, or cataracts. A microdeletion at 16p11.2 is associated with susceptibility to mental retardation or autism and […]
As a parent, when I see the phrase “nature-nurture,” I get a bit stuck on the “nurture” word, as any suggestion that we didn’t provide the right emotional, social, and so forth “environment” for Charlie and did not provide enough “nurture” can lead a parent to think of the discredited “refrigerator mother” theory of autism. […]
The Daily Green mentions flame retardants and “common cleaning products” (as in “phthalates, glycol ethers and other known toxins”) as possible environmental causes of autism. And ends with a paragraph of unfounded speculations:
Others wonder if a collective “nature deficit disorder” among children plays a factor in rising autism rates. Outdoor exposure has long been associated […]
“Happy is he who knows the causes of things,” writes the Roman poet Virgil in Book 2 of his Georgics. Virgil was writing about the stars and the sun and the moon, about why there are eclipses and earthquakes, about natural phenomena, about the cosmos—-and his words can be applied to a much more specific […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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