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Archive for the ‘Eric Fombonne’ Category

IMFAR 2011: the press conference (part 1)

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

The International Meeting for Autism Research starts tomorrow. There are some preliminary sessions ongoing today, including the press conference. For the press conference, a small group of researchers were singled out and gave advance summaries of their work. David Amaral of U.C. Davis is the president of INSAR (the International Society for Autism Research) and [...]

Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Total Population Sample

Monday, May 9th, 2011

A long-awaited study of autism prevalence in Korea came out today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Most of the information we have about autism prevalence comes from the US, the UK and Europe, so many were looking at this as the “Korean Study”. It is that, and very much more. The title of the [...]

Researchers track down autism rates across the globe

Friday, April 8th, 2011

The Simons Foundation blog, SFARI, has always had a good quality of articles. Lately it appears to me that the frequency of articles has increased. One recent article hits a subject that has been a focus of mine for some time: prevalence estimates and how they vary by culture and geography. In Researchers track down [...]

Autism Epidemic Talk

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

A couple of slap dash blog pieces appeared today both on the same subject – the so called autism epidemic. First off is Harold who writes about a series of interviews with David Kirby. David says: It’s crazy that in this debate, we’re still debating whether autism numbers are actually going up or not, which [...]

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