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		<title>Autism and Vaccines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism is a neurological disorder that affects a child’s ability to socialize normally. It impairs language skills and causes other behavioral abnormalities. Most cases of autism are diagnosed before the child reaches the age of three. While no one is exactly sure what causes autism, many holistic practitioners believe that immunization has something to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=36&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autism Awareness Campaign, UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Corea, who heads the Autism Awareness Campaign in the United Kingdom, has urged the Prime Minister Elect, Gordon Brown to take up the whole issue of autism. Gordon Brown has pledged to act on education as a key plank to his government&#8217;s strategy. Ivan Corea appealed to the Prime Minister Elect to view autism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=34&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nerve Excitability Controlled By Autism-Related Proteins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two proteins that are implicated in autism have been found to control the strength and balance of nerve-cell connections, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The proteins, which serve to physically link nerve cells together, were discovered more than a decade ago by UT Southwestern scientists, but their function has been unclear. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=35&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncovering The Mysteries Of Autism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism is a spectrum disorder, which means that it affects children in a variety of ways. By identifying the biological and behavioral patterns that define the autism spectrum, improved diagnostic practices and targeted treatments will emerge. &#8220;Uncovering the Mysteries of Autism&#8221; &#8211; highlights what the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute&#8217;s Autism Phenome Project is doing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=33&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Guidelines For Identification Of Autism</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/new-guidelines-for-identification-of-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading experts on child development today presented a new framework for identifying children at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental challenges, saying that current guidelines fail to identify many children who need and would benefit from early intervention. The framework is contained in a report by a special working group formed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=32&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Structure Of Protein Altered In Autism</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/structure-of-protein-altered-in-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a result of mapping the structure of the protein complex implicated in autism spectrum disorders, a research team led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has discovered how particular genetic mutations affect this complex and contribute to the developmental abnormalities found in children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=31&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Link Found Between Increased White Matter And Poor Motor Skills</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/link-found-between-increased-white-matter-and-poor-motor-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study published in the August issue of the journal Brain demonstrates, for the first time, an association between increased white matter volume and functional impairment in children with autism. Findings from researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md. reveal that in children with autism, increased white matter volume in the motor region [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=26&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stigma Of Autism And A Fluid Intelligence Study</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/the-stigma-of-autism-and-a-fluid-intelligence-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autistic children are doubly stigmatized. On the one hand, they are often dismissed as &#8216;low functioning&#8217; or mentally retarded, especially if they have poor speaking skills as many do. Yet when autistics do show exceptional abilities &#8212; uncanny visual discrimination and memory for detail, for example &#8212; their flashes of brilliance are marginalized as aberrations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=25&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research May Unlock Mystery Of Autism&#8217;s Origin In The Brain</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/research-may-unlock-mystery-of-autisms-origin-in-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that in autistic individuals, connections between brain cells may be deficient within single regions, and not just between regions, as was previously believed. Tony Wilson, Ph.D., lead researcher and assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, said he hopes this study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=24&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search For Causes And Early Markers For Autism</title>
		<link>http://autismfiles.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/search-for-causes-and-early-markers-for-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Causes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What: Pregnant women and new mothers who already have one child with autism joined UC Davis researchers and officials from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they announced funding of $7.5 million for UC Davis autism research. Part of the funding will go to a new autism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=autismfiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=602324&amp;post=23&amp;subd=autismfiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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