by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 2, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Sleep, Speech and Language
When Leo Kanner published his landmark Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943, a contemporary wrote, “he thought what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” It’s seventy years later, we’re knee-deep in an epidemic with...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Dec 23, 2012 | >ALL<, Autism Therapies, Earliest Red Flags, Holidays & Vacations, Patient experiences, Reversing autism
I have cared for children with some of the most life-altering medical conditions imaginable, from brain hemorrhages to beatings, AIDS to ASD. In the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, doctors often remarked, “It can always get worse!” Somehow, it felt as if...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Nov 18, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Chelation, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Speech and Language
Signs and symptoms of ASD are the most common ailments that I treat. Often, autism is the primary diagnosis, but there are many patients who have some other essential problem; either named (e.g. Down Syndrome), descriptive (Congenital hypotonia), or no diagnosis...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 29, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diagnosis, Earliest Red Flags, Patient experiences
Some medical professionals who read this blog might even scoff at the question. “Stimming? That’s something that you guys made up, like some of the other stuff you say about autism.” It’s as if sensory processing issues aren’t real,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Aug 27, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Earliest Red Flags, Reversing autism
What if autism is not an epidemic? What if the condition is just a new name for childhood conditions which were previously called ‘retardation’ or ‘severely hyperactive’? That logic leads to the erroneous conclusion that, in a previous era,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Aug 23, 2012 | Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Earliest Red Flags, Reversing autism, Speech and Language
I can’t play the oboe. I probably never will. But, if I wanted to, it would probably take, like, 6 months just to be able to produce a single note. Then, maybe after 1 year – if I practiced every day – I might be able to play Three Blind Mice....
