Study Documents Previously Autistic Individuals Who No Longer Show Impairment
Autism is generally considered to be a lifelong condition. While treatment can certainly be effective, the goal is often described more in terms of symptom reduction rather than a true recovery (in...
View ArticleAutism Assessment Clinic Has Openings for Vermont Medicaid Families
by Jeremiah Dickerson, MD Director, VCCYF Autism Assessment Clinic As you may know, the Vermont Center for Children, Youth, & Families, in partnership with the State of Vermont, has established an...
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Increaed Brain Connectivity Found in Childhood Autism
While there have been many findings in the literature demonstrating that the brains of those with autism differ from non-autistic individuals, the results often do not agree. This study used...
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Autism Linked to Maternal Antibodies Reacting to Specific Antigens
While there is quite strong support to view autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder, the precise mechanisms that underlie this spectrum remain elusive. A research group from the University of...
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Autism Screening – What Will Happen with the New M-CHAT?
When it comes to autism screening for toddlers, the Modified Checklist for Autism (M-CHAT) is one of the most widely used and studied instruments available (and it’s free and dowloadable). While it’s...
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Patches of Brain Disorganization Identified in Autism
Characterizing the precise pathology in autistic spectrum disorders, let alone other psychiatric disorders, has remained challenging. Postmortem studies of actual brain tissue are rare but have the...
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No Link Between Assisted Reproduction Techniques and Autism Related Genetic...
(Editor’s note: I’m very pleased to be able to present this guest post by one of our new child psychiatry fellows, Sean Ackerman, who recently published this important study – DR). Sean Ackerman, MD...
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Study Questions Reasons Behind the Rise in Autism Diagnoses
The question is no longer if the diagnosis of autism is rising but why. Over the past 40 years, the rate has increased from around 1975 of 1 in about 5,000 children to, most recently in 2012, a rate...
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Autism Diagnosis Made Later For Children with ADHD
Autism and ADHD can share many common features, and both disorders are being diagnosed more frequently compared to previous decades. Making matters more complicated is the accumulating evidence that...
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Autism Severity Criteria Has Dropped
The increased prevalence of autism over the last several decades has been widely reported with rates now peaking at around 1 in 68 children, according to the CDC. This rise has triggered alarm in many...
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