Topic: Autism Spectrum Disorders
AP News | 2010-02-25 19:23:03
FILE - This Feb. 5, 2010 file photo shows the entrance to the Peninsula Hotel in New York where severely autistic 8-year-old Jude Michael Mirra was found dead, prosecutors say at the hands of his mother. After years of struggling with ...
AP News | 2010-02-17 15:41:21
<div id="subtitle">'Aspies' cling to Asperger's as an elite diagnosis and balk at proposal to lump it with autism</div><div><p>In the autism world, "Aspies" are sometimes seen as the elites, the ones who are socially awkward, yet academically gifted and who embrace their quirkiness.</p> ...
Reuters US Online Report Science News | 2010-02-16 13:37:35
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.</p><p>They found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were ...
AP News | 2010-02-10 05:26:00
<div id="subtitle">Psychiatrists propose changes in how doctors diagnose and name mental disorders</div><div><p>Don't say "mental retardation" — the new term is "intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome — call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral addictions" will be new to doctors ...
