by Dr. Brian Udell | Feb 20, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Patient experiences
It was the best of conferences, it was the worst of conferences. There were families living the reality and experts carrying the truth. These were my experiences at two very different autism conferences this past week. There were sharp contrasts in spirit, knowledge...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 19, 2012 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Patient experiences
I’ll indulge myself a bit here and compare my medical practice that helps ASD patients to the story in the movie Moneyball. It’s about Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s, who changed the way that baseball evaluated, paid for, and...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Nov 9, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Patient experiences
I recently had the pleasure of observing my talented and diligent son, Sean, at his job as a Special Education Teacher for 6th and 7th grade students in Denver, CO. As part of the organization Teach for America, he has been assigned to a new charter school with about...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 22, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Holidays & Vacations, Patient experiences
For this post, my compassionate and ever-helpful office manager, Karen, suggested the title “I Had a Holistic Summer”. She was referring to the annual autumn influx of parent attempting various nutritional supplements in order to address their...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 3, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Patient experiences
In 5 or 10 years, when medical science begins to make some sense of what we, today, call ASD, there will be a new name that better reflects this 21st century epidemic and there will be subcategories that best fit the individuality which is part of this syndrome. So,...