We need more quality research in autism, no doubt about that. Private organizations can fund/manage this. But, there are Research Organizations and ‘research’ organizations.
I was interested to see the new autism organization emerge—the Autism Science Foundation. Kev has already discussed introduction of the ASF.
When I saw ASF’s webpage, I was immediately [...]
Its always interesting to read about new quality science and two new genetic oriented studies in Nature give us just that – quality science.
The first of two Nature studies released today found that 65 percent of autistic participants shared a variation between cadherin 10 and cadherin 9, a region of the genome that controls cell-adhesion [...]
Following on from the National Autistic Society’s I Exist campaign and the massive support for the Autism Bill in Parliament the UK Government, after working closely with an external reference group chaired by NAS chief executive, Mark Lever, has launched a
consultation process for the first government strategy to support adults with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) [...]
Maybe you don’t know, or have forgotten who Richard Deth (pronounced to rhyme with ‘teeth’) is.
He is:
Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist, a professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is on the scientific advisory board of the National Autism Association. Deth has published scientific studies on the role of D4 dopamine [...]
