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Included in the economic bailout bill signed by President Bush last Friday, October 3, was a new law requiring equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. Go here to read H.R. 1424, SEC. 512. MENTAL HEALTH PARITY, Subtitle B–Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
The October 5th […]
13-year-old Austin Large has been missing since earlier this week, when he did not return from a fishing trip with his father, Eugene Large. Today’s AM 900 reports that police now believe that this may be a case of parental abduction:
Witnesses though have told police they saw the two aboard a ferry to Manitoulin on […]
Scientists have previously posited that autism’s cause is at the synapse. Mutations in the genes for neuroligins—which ensure that signal transitions between nerve cells function—-have been suggested as a cause of autism. Neuroscientists at Children’s Hospital Boston have identified what is being called a “master switch” that organizes the functioning of inhibitory synapses. Synapses […]
The latest issue of Nature Genetics opens with an editorial entitled All in the mind about recent discoveries of de novo mutations in some cases of autism and schizophrenia. “Exceptional rigor and caution” are called for in the search for “causative variants”:
If many genes can be perturbed to produce a related set of psychiatric phenotypes, […]
Sunday’s New York Times had an article about “Mad Pride”: More people with “severe forms of mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder” are now speaking out about “their demons”:
About 5.7 million Americans over 18 have bipolar disorder, which is classified as a mood disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Another […]
The risk of having an autistic child is doubled if a parent has schizophrenia or if a mother has psychiatric problems (depression, personality disorders), according to a study published in Pediatrics. From Reuters via WNED.org:
The study of families in Sweden with children born between 1977 and 2003 involved 1,227 children diagnosed with autism. They were […]
In a new study, scientists at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories have found that rates of genetic deletions and duplications are three to four times higher in people with schizophrenia. These genetic mutations are more likely to disrupt that brain’s signaling genes, which affect brain development. Further, researchers found that “most […]
Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me […]
Autism and schizophrenia: This is a topic far beyond what one blog post can even begin to discuss, and this post is simply a note on the topic after reflecting on what Dr. Nancy Minshew said in a February 6th article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and puzzling over the as-usual excessive response by those who […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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