Planet Thrive

Autism Spectrum News (20 items)

• Temple Grandin: Innovator, Activist, Autistic
  On Feb 6th HBO will air an original film starring Claire Danes based on the true story of Temple Grandin, a highly successful doctor of animal sciences and an internationally renowned autism advocate.
• Unravelling the Mystery of Autism
  E Magazine's cover story this month connects environmental toxicity with autism -- shining light on the link between children with autism and adults with environmental illness.
• Ask Dr. Buttar about Vaccine Injury, Heavy Metal Toxicity or Autism‏
  If you had 30 seconds to ask Dr. Rashid A. Buttar one question about vaccine injury, heavy metal toxicity or autism, what would it be?
• Autism Biomedical Treatment Grant Applications Available Now
  Applications for the second round of Generation Rescue's Rescue Family grant program are available now on their web site. Applications must be received by Dec. 10, 2009.
• Desiree Jennings Update: Road to Recovery
  Vaccine injured cheerleader Desiree Jenning's latest video update shows a much recovered woman who can speak normally after beginning treatment with an alternative practitioner in North Carolina.
• Call for chemical free zone
  Tami Duncan, Executive Director of the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation sends out a plea to parents and practitioners of autistic children to refrain from wearing perfume, and other scented products.
• Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey reach out to Desiree Jennings
  The celebrity-backed autism organization Generation Rescue offers help to flu vaccine victim Desiree Jennings whose tragic story has made headlines in recent weeks.
• Ashok Gupta Interview
  Planet Thrive founder Julie Genser interviews Ashok Gupta to get a more in-depth view into the Amygdala Retraining™ Program for CFS/ME and related disorders.
• A mother confounds autism experts, rewires son’s brain
  Cheri Florance risked her whole family's happiness in a successful battle to turn her deaf, mute and uncontrollable little boy into a happy, healthy and normal teenager.
• Impaired Brain Plasticity Linked To Angelman Syndrome Learning Deficits
  Researchers believe that the disruption of a single gene in the brain can cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism...
• Enlarged brain region found in toddlers with autism: study
  Toddlers with autism seem more likely to have a larger amygdala, the area of the brain linked with facial recognition and emotion, a brain scanning study suggests.
• New Study: Autism Linked to Environment
  Research links soaring incidence of the mysterious neurological disorder to fetal and infant exposure to pesticides, viruses, household chemicals.
• Autism Teen Creates “Outsider” Art
  Arthur Simo is a teenager, self-taught artist and he has autism. Creating art gives him a way of showing his feelings about the way he perceives the world around him.
• Indiana: High rates of autism, toxic pollution
  Indiana’s autism rate is now 1 in 113, above the national rate. Is it a coincidence that 266 million pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the state's air, land and water in 2006 alone?
• Dissolve Biofilms With Fibrinolytic Enzymes: A Novel Approach to Chronic Infection in Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Interview with Peta Cohen, M.S., R.D., who specializes in treating children with autism using a biomedical / nutritional model, including the use of fibrinolytic enzymes like lumbrokinase and nattokinase.
• Autism Recovery… OSD, TMA, AAP, NIH, CDC, IOM, Listen Up!!!
  A military mom recovers her vaccine-injured child from autism using biomedical treatment therapies.
• A new theory on autism put forward
  Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but dysregulated.
• Scientists find ‘baffling’ link between autism and vinyl flooring
  Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit phthalates, are twice as likely to have autism, according to a new study by Swedish and U.S. researchers.
• An Outbreak of Autism, or a Statistical Fluke?
  A group of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis have experienced an alarming surge in the rate of autism in their community but doctors and public health experts are unsure if its an outbreak or statistical fluke.
• They’re Autistic – and They’re in Love
  Lindsey and Dave are deeply in love. And they are autistic. Every day of their relationship, these two beat tremendous odds. That's because the very definition of autism suggests that love is not in the cards at all.