Autism PreventionAutism PreventionAutism Prevention is possible because a good part of what is today called autism is caused by spontaneous mutations that accumulate in the sperm making cells, called spermatagonia, as men age. Fathering babies earlier in life and cryopreserving seme 
Articles
Defeat Autism in Nigeria” project
2008-04-05 16:58:00 Autism: Third most chronic childhood ailment – NGO• Friday, Apr 4, 2008Olg Health Foundation and Autism Centre, a non-governmental organisation, has described autism as the third most chronic childhood ailment in the world.In a statement Tuesday in Abuja, the group said that one out of every 150 children suffered from autism, while a child was being diagnosed with the illness every 16 minutes of the day.“These children have difficulty in perceiving their environment; hencethey need supportive intervention in order for them to function in the society.“Most of them have no speech. Even if they do, it is delayed and not at par with their age. Behaviorally, most of the affected children do shout, scream, roll on the floor (tantrum) in public,” it said .The statement said that autism was associated with other severe inappropriate behaviours, including self-injurious mannerisms like hitting of head on the wall, laughing and giggling for no apparent reason.It said that the senso... More About: Autism , Project
Did HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Say: "We know it's the mercury"?
2008-04-05 16:20:00 Adventures in Autism: Did HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Say: "We know it's the mercury"?#linksThere is more than one kind of/road to autism. One path is what is described by Ginger Taylor, Terry and Jon Poling and so many others.Another large group of infants that are today diagnosed as autistic have older fathers.Another large group have X-linked disorders which is associated with having a mother who had an older father when she was conceived.There is a group of offspring who have engineers for parents and the genes progressed to those that cause fuller autism.Parents with ADHD or other disorders and are older might have an autistic child. The list of ways to have a child today suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders is long. More About: Mercury
Terry Poling answers Paul Offit on Hannah's Autism and her Nine Vaccination
2008-04-05 16:09:00 LETTER TO THE EDITOR, NEW YORK TIMESVaccines, Autism and Our Daughter, Hannah Published: April 5, 2008To the Editor:Skip to next paragraphRelatedOp-Ed Contributor: Inoculated Against Facts (March 31, 2008) Re “Inoculated Against Facts,” by Paul A. Offit (Op-Ed, March 31):Our daughter, Hannah, developed normally until receiving nine vaccines at once. She immediately developed a fever and encephalopathy, deteriorating into what was diagnosed, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M. IV, as autism.The federal government, not an “unusual court,” made the concession. The decision wasn’t “careless,” as your subheading called it. It was based on a thorough review of Hannah’s records by Health and Human Services doctors.The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program does rely on a “preponderance of evidence” standard, which Hannah’s case met. It doesn’t necessarily compensate families “quickly, generously and fairly.” We fil... More About: Answers , Terry
A growing body of evidence suggests that a father's age (paternal age) may
2008-04-04 05:40:00 Older fathers and autism risk: Is there a connection? Is it true that children born to older fathers are at increased risk of autism?- Kristin / UtahMayo Clinic pediatrician Jay Hoecker, M.D., and colleagues answer select questions from readers.AnswerA growing body of evidence suggests that a father's age (paternal age) may play a role in autism risk.A large study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2006 examined the relationship between advancing paternal age and autism risk. Researchers reported that children born to men 40 years or older were almost six times more likely to have autism spectrum disorder than were children born to men younger than 30 years.The reason for this increased risk of autism isn't clear. One theory is that as men age, their genetic material loses some ability to repair itself. As a result, spontaneous mutations in genes may be passed on rather than corrected — potentially leading to an increased risk of brain abnormalities in their chil... More About: Body , Evidence , Growing
You Must Read Every Word of This Post By Ginger Before Your Child is Vaccin
2008-04-03 18:13:00 Adventures in Autism: Jenny McCarthy and David Kirby on Larry King#links Take the time to read this whole post More About: Word , Post , Read , Child , Ginger
Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism
2008-04-02 19:01:00 Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter Wednesday, April 2, 2008; 12:00 AM WEDNESDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects of autism: One tried to pinpoint a risk factor for development of the disorder, while the other looked at the financial toll that having an autistic child takes on a family. Both studies were expected to be published in the April issue ofPediatricsand were released early in honor of World Autism Day on April 2. The first looked for early autistic behaviors, though not specifically for a diagnosis of autism, in premature infants who were born at a very low birth weight -- about 3.3 pounds -- and found that several factors associated with these early births were linked to a positive result on an autism screening test. "The bottom line is that there appears to be a high prevalence of positive screening for autism in survivors of extreme preterm birth and ongoing fol...
Another Great Post From Ginger on Improvement in Those With Regressive Auti
2008-04-02 18:47:00 Adventures in Autism: The American Academy of Pediatrics to Work With Defeat Autism Now in Treating Autistic Children!#links More About: Post , Great , Improvement , Ginger
Autism charities estimate more than 500,000 people in the UK have autism an
2008-04-02 16:43:00 Campaigners eager to highlight autism« Previous« PreviousNext »Next »View GalleryBy FIONA MACLEODCAMPAIGNERS are calling for action on autism in advance of the world's first awareness raising day.The United Nations has declared tomorrow World Autism Awareness Day to highlight the plight of those with the developmental disorder.Autism charities estimate more than 500,000 people in the UK have autism and one in 100 children could be affected.Baroness Pola Uddin congratulated Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, and the UN General Assembly for establishing the milestone.She said: "This is a historic event and I hope it will not only raise awareness of autism and Asperger's syndrome, but that the United Nations will help the poor."Lady Uddin called on Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, to support Autism Awareness Campaign UK's call for a national strategy and a ten-year action plan on autism.She also asked for an autism task force to be set up to examine the education and health... More About: People , Charities
each person has a unique pattern of mutations; the result is stunningly sim
2008-04-02 16:35:00 New Study Links Schizophrenia, AutismPosted April 1st, 2008 by Carina RoseHealth NewsWashingtonWashington: Since April 2 is the first-ever World Autism Awareness Day, a new study has shown that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations; the result is stunningly similar to new research on autism. The new study has found that rare and previously undetectable genetic variations may significantly increase the risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.The study, published recently in the journal Science, has found extremely rare and unknown mutations that turned up three to four times as often in people with schizophrenia as in those without it. The researchers involved in the study analyzed blood samples from 150 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and 268 without a psychiatric disorder. They looked for rare variations that disrupted the function of genes using new high-resolutio... More About: Unique , Pattern , Person , Result
Al Jazeera to air programme on autism Wednesday, April 02, 2008
2008-04-02 16:33:00 Al Jazeera to air programme on autism Wednesday , April 02, 2008-->Web posted at: 4/1/2008 4:16:17Source ::: The PeninsulaDoha • Al Jazeera Documentary Channel will telecast a special episode on Autism to mark the International day for Autism which falls on April 2.The documentary explores how life turned out for the first generation of children to be diagnosed with autism in Britain; and what hope do their life stories give the parents of autistic children today. It also features interviews with the columnist Charlotte Moore, who has two autistic son aged 11 and 13 and the artist Daviod Branusberg, who has high-functioning autism.The film includes interviews with some of the world's leading expert on autism, including Dr Lorna Wing, Professor Christopher Gillberg. It also explores the latest experimental research into the autistic brain in Finland, England and America which gives new hope for greater understanding of this mysterious disability using cutting-edge technology.Saskia... More About: Al Jazeera , Al-Jazeera
The Pain of Autism Loneliness Prevent Some Through Fathering Babies Befor
2008-04-02 16:23:00 Autism – a culture withinBy Sadaf Shahid 4/2/2008“I am as good at a two way conversation as a pile of gramophone records/Or a parrot that is talking from a cage/Some lasses seem in rage when they talk to me/I don’t seem to hold the keys to their thought processes” — David Miedziannik, an autistic person, in his poem about his loneliness. As the world observes the International Autism day, it would be instructive to take a closer look at this much misunderstood disorder that so many people all over the world are suffering from. And also what Pakistan is doing to cope with it.Autism has remained a mystery for researchers, neurologists and psychiatrists for centuries. Although the cause of autism is still unknown, a number of strategies have been developed, that have saved so many lives all around the world. Professor Gary Mesibov, calls it a culture. To understand what he means, one needs to define culture. Culture is a shared pattern of behavior. It affects the way we think... More About: Babies , Autism , Pain , Loneliness
Autism Queensland says a recent study into autism showed the diagnosis rate
2008-04-02 16:16:00 tism study shows increased ratesPosted 10 hours 44 minutes agoMap: Brisbane 4000Autism Queensland says a recent study into autism showed the diagnosis rate is increasing, with one in 160 children affected.Chief executive Penny Beeston is hoping today's first World Autism Awareness Day will help increase the understanding of the neurological condition.There is no cure or prenatal test available for autism.Ms Beeston says the disorder inhibits social skills and learning, which can cause problems at school."There may be children in their classrooms who have autism and it may be difficult for them to understand some of the things that occur around that child," she said."Just to raise awareness about those particular sensitivities and difficulties that child will be experiencing in a classroom."Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, mental-health, brisbane-4000 More About: Study , Recent , Diagnosis
Later Paternal Age Sperm Accumulations of Mutations Cause Autism/Early Chil
2008-04-02 08:07:00 The Autism - Schizophrenia LinkPosted by Jane AkreTuesday, April 01, 2008 10:18 AM EST Tomorrow is World Autism Awareness Day, a time to focus on what causes the social deficit disease that circumvents normal interactions and development in children.New research on schizophrenia suggests it could be a cousin to autism.People suffering from schizophrenia, characterized by delusions, hallucinations and socially inappropriate acting out, have mutations to the genes that control brain development, yielding similar results to research on autism.The variations are unique to each individual, which runs counter to conventional thinking to this point that these gene variations run in families and can be pinpointed to an “autism” gene or “schizophrenia” gene.The newest scanning an individual’s entire genome - “Whole-genome scanning” - allows a look at a person’s DNA, which is then compared to family members DNA and others without the disease.15 percent of people with schizoph... More About: Early , Sperm
People with schizophrenia may have the disease because they are unlucky eno
2008-04-01 07:34:00 Rare gene defects might add up to schizophrenia18:03 27 March 2008 NewScientist.com news service Ewen Callaway Tools Related ArticlesSchizophrenia dooms victims to repeat mistakes 22 January 2008 Childhood brain infections risk of schizophrenia 21 July 2007 Brain growth link to schizophrenia 12 August 2006 Search New Scientist Contact us Web LinksJack McClellan, University of Washington Daniel Weinberger, National Institute of Mental Health Schizophrenia, Royal College of Physiatrists People with schizophrenia may have the disease because they are unlucky enough to end up with an extremely rare combination of genes, according to a genetic study of the devastating illness.The comparison of schizophrenics and healthy people reveals that the former are far likelier to possess extremely rare gene mutations. It is these mutations, the researchers hypothesise, that underlie many cases of schizophrenia.About 1% of people suffer from the disease, which typically hits people in their twent... More About: Disease
Should Every Infant Be Screened For A Mitochondrial Disorder Before Any Vac
2008-04-01 01:46:00 Adventures in Autism: Julie Gerberding Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism#links#links More About: Infant
I Disagree Non-Familial Autism is Expected to Rise When Men Father at 34 an
2008-03-31 23:37:00 updated 11:14 a.m. EDT, Mon March 31, 2008Feedback Autism 's mysteries remain as numbers growBy Val WillinghamCNN ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland (CNN) -- It remains one of the greatest mysteries of medicine. Although autism will be diagnosed in more than 25,000 U.S. children this year, more than new pediatric cases of AIDS, diabetes and cancer combined, scientists and doctors still know very little about the neurological disorder.Until they were 18 months old, the Gaston triplets seemed like normal, healthy babies. Unlike childhood diabetes or pediatric leukemia More About: Father , Rise
End Childbearing By the Man's 34th Birthday And You Will Prevent Much Pater
2008-03-31 05:37:00 By Andrea Anderson a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Individuals with schizophrenia are more likely to carry rare genetic variants than unaffected individuals — particularly in genes involved in brain development and function, new research indicates. Research led by teams at the University of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the National Institute of Mental Health compared the rate of genetic duplications and deletions in schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic individuals. What they found flies in the face of the once accepted “common disease-common allele” model for schizophrenia. Instead the results, published online today in Science Express, hint that many mutations in many genes could contribute to schizophrenia. “From that perspective, if nothing else, I’m sure we’ll get some discussion going,” co-lead author Jon McClellan, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Washington, told GenomeWeb Daily News. About one p... More About: Birthday
Objective To examine the relationship between advancing paternal age at bi
2008-03-31 05:25:00 Vol. 63 No. 9, September 2006 Archives • Advancing Paternal Age and Autism Abraham Reichenberg, PhD; Raz Gross, MD, MPH; Mark Weiser, MD; Michealine Bresnahan, PhD; Jeremy Silverman, PhD; Susan Harlap, MBBS; Jonathan Rabinowitz, PhD; Cory Shulman, PhD; Dolores Malaspina, MD; Gad Lubin, MD; Haim Y. Knobler, MD; Michael Davidson, MD; Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2006;63:1026-1032. Context Maternal and paternal ages are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. Objective To examine the relationship between advancing paternal age at birth of offspring and their risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Design Historical population-based cohort study. Setting Identification of ASD cases from the Israeli draft board medical registry. Participants We conducted a study of Jewish persons born in Israel during 6 consecutive years. Virtually all men and about three quarters of women in this cohort underwent draft board assessment at age 17 years. Paternal ag... More About: Relationship
Father's Age and Autism Risk Paper EBD Blog
2008-03-30 20:23:00 Here is the last paragraph of Feldman's paper:What might be the mechanism that produces higher rates of disorders among children of older fathers? The DNA in a 20 year-old male has been copied approximately100 times but in a 50 year-old father it has been copied over 800 times. Singh and colleagues (2003) studied differences in the sperm of older and younger men. Men over age 35 have sperm with lower motility and more highly damaged DNA in the form of double-strand breaks. The older group also had fewer apoptotic cells, an important discovery. (Apoptosis is form of cell death that protects the parent organism from problems or that permits differentiation, as in resorption of a tadpole’s tail.) A really key factor that differentiates sperm from other cells in the body is that they do not repair their DNA damage, as most other cells do. As a result, the only way to avoid passing DNA damage to a child is for the damaged cells to undergo apoptosis, a process that the study indicates ... More About: Autism , Blog , Risk , Paper
Elephant Paints a Self Portrait
2008-03-30 19:12:00 amazing More About: Paints , Portrait , Self Portrait , Elephant
THE CDC DOESN'T Research the Safety of Vaccination Nor Does IT WARN THE PUB
2008-03-30 18:55:00 Adventures in Autism: Ken Stoller Files Complaint Against Anne Schuchat More About: Safety , Research
MALE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK IS THE KEY TO MUCH AUTISM
2008-03-30 18:36:00 "Paternal age is consistently associated with increased risk of schizophrenia (Brown et al, 2002; Dalman & Allebeck, 2002; Malaspina et al, 2002; Byrne et al, 2003; El-Saadi et al, 2004; Sipos et al, 2004; Tsuchiya et al, 2005). Paternal age is also associated with increased rates of several types of de novo germ-line mutations (Crow, 2003)." Br J Psychiatry. 2007 Mar ;190 :194-9 17329737 (P,S,E,B,D) Schizophrenia: a common disease caused by multiple rare alleles. [My paper] Jon M McClellan, Ezra Susser, Mary-Claire King Department of Psychiatry, Box 356560, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. drjack@u.washington.edu.Schizophrenia is widely held to stem from the combined effects of multiple common polymorphisms, each with a small impact on disease risk. We suggest an alternative view: that schizophrenia is highly heterogeneous genetically and that many predisposing mutations are highly penetrant and individually rare, even specific to single cases or families. This ;co... More About: Clock , Autism , Male
AN INTERSECTION OF WHAT IS CALLED SCHIZOPHRENIA AND WHAT IS CALLED AUTISM
2008-03-30 07:03:00 "Take away schizophrenia's hallucinations and delusions," said Jon McClellan, a child psychiatrist at the University of Washington and a leader of the study, published in yesterday's online issue of the journal Science, "and the symptoms that remain, the lack of social interest and withdrawal, are what we call autism. There is clearly an intersection of the brain systems involved." .......... More About: Autism , Schizophrenia
What Did Julie Gerberding Say About Vaccines and Autism?
2008-03-30 04:12:00 Adventures in Autism : Wait! Did Julie Gerberding Just Admit that Vaccines Trigger Autism!?
Fluoride is a Poison It Should Not Be Added to the Water Supply
2008-03-29 22:22:00 fluoride a poison More About: Water , Poison
Ginger "Adventures in Autism" Has the Best Blog on Non Paternal Age Autism
2008-03-29 16:46:00 Adventures in Autism : More on Mitochondrical Disorders from the Clevland Clinic#links More About: Blog , Ginger , Adventures
Did You Ever Notice the Paternal Age Effect in Non-Familial Non-Vaccine Ind
2008-03-29 16:41:00 Thursday, February 28, 2008an affected first-born is seen most dramatically in the group of AGRE fathers who are 30–39 years The paternal age distribution of the AGRE fathers, whose first child is autistic differs significantly from that of the 'control' sample (P=0.005). A 2 goodness-of-fit test with 2 degrees of freedom was conducted using percents in the 'control' group age categories to calculate the expected values in the AGRE sample. The shift toward higher paternal ages in those with an affected first-born is seen most dramatically in the group of AGRE fathers who are 30–39 years inclusive, which is 54.7% of the distribution compared with the 41.9 % that is expected. We interpret this shifted age distribution to provide support for the recently reported finding by Reichenberg and co-workers that autism risk is associated with advancing paternal age.1: Mol Psychiatry. 2007 May;12(5):419-21. LinksPaternal age and autism are associated in a family-based sample.Cantor RM,... More About: Vaccine , Effect , Notice
A Letter From Dan Burton to the Special Masters at Vaccine Court
2008-03-29 16:18:00 http://a-champ.org/vaccinecourt_burton_de soto.html More About: Vaccine , Letter , Special , Masters , Court
WILL THE GOVERNMENT CURB AN OVERLY AGGRESSIVE VACCINATION SCHEDULE ...?
2008-03-29 05:35:00 MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION, VACCINES AND AUTISM: 1 in 50 Children Could Be at Risk WILL THE GOVERNMENT CURB AN OVERLY AGGRESSIVE VACCINATION SCHEDULE TOCOMBAT RISING AUTISM RATES? NIXA, Mo., March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents of children whoregressed into autism after receiving vaccines are expressing cautiousoptimism that government health officials may at last be catching on to thelink between vaccines and autism. An article published on Huffington Post by investigative journalistDavid Kirby reported details of a conference call held earlier in March,bringing together federal vaccine safety officials to discuss concernssurrounding mitochondrial dysfunction, autism and vaccines. The call came on the heels of a concession by the federal governmentthat vaccines lead to regressive autism in nine-year-old Hannah Poling ofAtlanta. The ruling is raising many questions, especially in the area ofmitochondrial dysfunction, which the government conceded was exacerbated ... More About: Government , Schedule
Andrew Wakefield and Colleagues Should Applauded and Supported
More articles from this author:2008-03-29 02:40:00 Adventures in Autism: Wakefield and Colleagues Should Be Knighted, Not Persecuted More About: Andrew 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
 |
|
 |
