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Autism Vox

April 11th, 2008

The “Subpopulation” of Mitochondrial Autism

From an op-ed in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution by neurologist Jon S. Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, with a proposal for more research in the “mitochondrial autism”:
Emerging evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction may not be rare at all among children with autism. In the only population-based study of its kind, Portuguese researchers confirmed that at […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 25 comments