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"The battery’s dead": Burnout looks different in autistic adults

Beth Winegarner

Tyla Grant, 24, holds down a full-time advertising job, is trying to get a nonprofit off the ground and creates regular content for her podcast, YouTube channel and Instagram. Occasionally, she winds up so fried she can’t speak or get out of bed for days. Ms. Grant is also autistic. While most people undergo periods of burnout — physical, cognitive and emotional depletion caused by intense, prolonged stress — autistic people, at some point in their lives, experience it on a whole different level. A ..

New genetic autism test beats older tests

Kathleen Doheny

March 15, 2010 -- A new genetic test for autism, known as chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA), finds more genetic abnormalities than two older tests, a study shows. ''CMA is much better than karyotyping or fragile X testing at detection -- it's at least t ..

Video: Autism Higher Education Foundation & Music

AHEF

Acknowledging that the incidence of autism has risen dramatically in the past two decades, the Autism Higher Education Foundation recognizes that the current lack of lifelong learning opportunities in higher education, music and the arts for individuals with a ..

Vaccine court rules no thimerosal claims proven, no compesnation entitled

CNN

The "special vaccine court" ruled Friday (12 March) that parents who alleged their children's autism was caused by a mercury-containing preservative in childhood vaccines did not prove their cases and are not entitled to compensation. The reviews of the thr ..

Do toxins cause autism?

Nicholas D. Kristof

Autism was first identified in 1943 in an obscure medical journal. Since then it has become a frighteningly common affliction, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting recently that autism disorders now affect almost 1 percent of children. Over recent ..

Violated for having autism

Cris Italia

As dawn neared and the sun peered through clouds that covered the village of San Miguel in El Salvador, Oscar Nosta wondered if it was morning. “It must be morning,” he thought to himself. For three years it was a routine. Nosta would press his left eye ag ..

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Temple Grandin: Life among the 'yakkity yaks'

Bari Weiss

'Who do you think made the first stone spear?" asks Temple Grandin. "That wasn't the yakkity yaks sitting around the campfire. It was some Aspberger sitting in the back of a cave figuring out how to chip rocks into spearheads. Without some autistic traits you ..

Hormone oxytocin offers possible autism treatment

ModernMedicine

Treatment with the hormone oxytocin improves social interactions and performance, and enhances feelings of trust in subjects with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome during simulated social interaction, according to a study published online Feb. 16 ..

Video: Autism in Iraq

CBS

The ongoing instability in Iraq is taking a toll on the well-being of the very young. Parents who need special services for their children often have trouble finding it. Lara Logan reports. مزيد من التوحد من المعلومات هنا

Both Parents’ Ages Linked to Autism Risk

NYT

Older mothers are more likely than younger ones to have a child with autism, and older fathers significantly contribute to the risk of the disorder when their partners are under 30, researchers are reporting. In a study published online on Monday in the jou ..

Lancet retracts 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism

CNN

The medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday retracted a controversial 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. The study linked autism with the MMR vaccine. The research subsequently had been discredited. Last week, th ..

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