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Could It Be Oral Pain? An Overlooked Piece of the Puzzle for Children With Autism and ADHD
Author's Note: Recent trends in language use within the autism community reflect differing preferences regarding identity-first language (e.g., "autistic person") and person-first language (e.g., "person with autism"). In this article, both styles are used to reflect the diverse preferences of...
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Mount Sinai Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Promising Treatment for Autism Subtype
Scientists at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), a promising treatment for a subtype of autism called Phelan McDermid Syndrome (PMS). The grant...
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A New Way of Thinking About Autism
On April 29, 2013 Dr. Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), wrote on the NIMH Director’s Blog that the Institute will be re-orienting its research away from currently used diagnostic categories (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or “DSM”) and...
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Excessive Folic Acid Supplementation: A Cause for Autism Spectrum Disorders?
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of phenotypically heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disabilities characterized by impairments in three core functional domains: reciprocal social interactions, verbal communication and stereotyped, repetitive patterns of behaviors. The ASDs are...
