Some Thoughts on Alternative Medical Alternatives to Autism Treatment

Some Thoughts on Alternative Medical Alternatives to Autism Treatment

This month’s Autism Society of Broward Speaker Series featured autism expert, Ms. Vicki Martin, who gave an interesting and thorough discussion assessing the medical causes of behavior in ASD, and my talk covering some of the latest biomedical treatments for...
Doctors Failing to Understand Autism

Doctors Failing to Understand Autism

When faced with the unknown or uncertain, physicians will often rely on language that, while sounding scientific and medical, just restates the obvious or says nothing helpful at all. “I’m not aware of any literature on that topic.” Does that mean...
A Brief Discussion of Mitochondrial Function and Autism

A Brief Discussion of Mitochondrial Function and Autism

Previously only of interest to researchers and a few doctors, this topic has become a popular subject to families of children affected with signs and symptoms that are grouped as Autism Spectrum Disorder. The amount of information is dense, complicated by the myriad...
Oxytocin for Autism – Again

Oxytocin for Autism – Again

For the past couple of decades, oxytocin – ‘the love hormone’ – has been postulated as a possible remedy to the social deficits associated with ASD. TheAutismDoctor has previously reviewed the use of this peptide, released by the pituitary...
Lyme Disease and the Autism Spectrum

Lyme Disease and the Autism Spectrum

A disease described forty years ago due to a cluster of patients who appeared in the vicinity of Lyme, CT, has to be considered among the list of differential diagnoses when pediatric patients present with unusual developmental and other complaints. Included on...
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