A new pilot study suggests intervention as early as 6 months could reduce or eliminate autism symptoms in children at high risk. Published on Tuesday in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, media quickly jumped all over the very small study despite its highly speculative findings: Pilot Intervention Eliminates …
Parents grab your herbal tea and favorite Enya cassette tape. A recent study in Pediatrics suggests practicing mindfulness and positive psychology can reduce stress, anxiety and depression in parents whose children have autism and other neurodevelopment disorders: Researchers at Vanderbilt University randomly assigned 243 mothers of children with developmental disabilities, …
Two new autism studies out this week. One shows brain abnormalities among children with autism. The other, rising rates of autism. Before you get too excited about either one, take a closer look. The first, a post-mortem examination of brain tissue in children who’d been diagnosed with autism landed in …
Big news in mental health. In fact make that the health field because this discovery blurs the line between mental and physical… A new study published in The Lancet has linked several of the same genetic mutations to autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. While no one …
Folic acid might reduce the risk of autism? According to a study of 85,176 children born in Norway just published in the Journal of the American Medical Assocation, mothers who reported taking a folic acid supplement in the weeks surrounding conception were 39% less likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. Only 0.1% …