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Infant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Is Associated with Later Emerging Autism

Friday, January 27th, 2012

A study out today is causing much discussion. Infant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Is Associated with Later Emerging Autism is by researchers from the UK, Canada and Australia: 1 Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK 2 Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A [...]

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The DSM 5 and autism

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

A recent article in the New York Times has sparked a renewed heated discussion on the topic of Autism and how the DSM 5 may change how it is diagnosed. The Times article, New Definition of Autism Will Exclude Many, Study Suggests, has already been discussed here at Left Brain/Right Brain. At that time there [...]

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The Omnibus Autism Proceeding: effectively over

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

The Omnibus Autism Proceeding (OAP) was held in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to group the large number of claims filed involving autism and vaccines. The Docket was opened on July 3, 2002, nearly 10 years ago. The last entry was placed 1 year ago. Since then many cases have been dismissed. About half [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Omnibus, Hannah Poling, Legal, MMR, Mercury, Mito, Vaccines | 21 Comments »

Trying to avoid bullying: like a groundhog trying to run from its shadow

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Kids get bullied, and special needs kids even more so. Doesn’t make it right. But what happens when people are so proud of it that they want it recorded to video and posted to the web? That’s what happens in this video. A group of kids are bullying an autistic kid. Only one throws the [...]

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