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		<title>ASAT newsletter available</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/07/asat-newsletter-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who subscribe to it know that the summer issue of Science in Autism Treatment, the newsletter for the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT), arrived today in their electronic mailboxes. For folks who are interested in Autism but who do not subscribe, here&#8217;s a catalog of content in this issue.

 In this Issue:
• [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven R. Forness</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/07/steven-r-forness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
S. R. Forness and J. W. Lloyd, 2005
Sometimes I get to hang around with some really wonderful contributors to the study of emotional and behavior disorders, and the accompanying photo shows one of those occasions. That&#8217;s Steven R. Forness, whom I was holding down so that he would not float away into the ether, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain features associated with neonatal risk for schizophrenia</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/brain-features-associated-with-neonatal-risk-for-schizophrenia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, John Gilmore and colleages reported that the size and structure of the brains of newborn boys&#8212;but not girls&#8212;who are at risk for developing schizophrenia differ from those of their peers. Using multiple scanning methods at different times during gestation and infancy, the researchers compared the brains of offspring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA warns seller of chelation product</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/fda-warns-seller-of-chelation-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to the producer of a product that is sometimes used by people hoping to eliminate heavy metals from children&#8217;s bodies (e.g., chelate mercury from children with autism). In a letter addressed to Boyd D. Haley of CTI Science Inc., Teresa C. Thompson of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism mixed with an iPad</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/autism-mixed-with-an-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Liz Ditz, I learned about this fun testimonial from Shannon Rosa:
My son Leo&#8217;s life was transformed when a five-dollar raffle ticket turned into a brand-new iPad. I&#8217;m not exaggerating. Before the iPad, Leo&#8217;s autism made him dependent on others for entertainment, play, learning, and communication. With the iPad, Leo electrifies the air around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNV and Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/cnv-and-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Science Based Medicine, David Gorsky has an extended post explaining the finding reported in &#8220;Functional Impact of Global Rare Copy Number Variation in Autism Spectrum Disorders&#8221; by Dalila Pinto and colleagues (and there are ship load of colleagues) that appeared in Nature. Dr. Pinto and colleagues examined copy number variations (CNVs; deletions, insertions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad science?</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/06/bad-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an editorial under the headline &#8220;Bad science gets its due,&#8221; the editors of the Boston (MA) Globe lament the consequences of Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s promotion of a connection between vaccines and Autism. At the end of the piece, the editorialist makes an important point:
But sadder still is the possibility that, in the minds of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lock &#8216;em up!</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/lock-em-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 11:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Handcuffing revives autism reform calls,&#8221; Natalie Craig reported about a story that, it seems to me, we&#8217;ve heard sometime before now.

POLICE handcuffed a 10-year-old autistic boy at a Geelong primary school after a breakdown in which he threw a compass that speared a classmate&#8217;s leg.

Link to the full version of Ms. Craig&#8217;s story.
Sphere: Related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar or temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria?</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/bipolar-or-temper-dysregulation-disorder-with-dysphoria/</link>
		<comments>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/bipolar-or-temper-dysregulation-disorder-with-dysphoria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the headline &#8220;Time to reexamine bipolar diagnosis in children,&#8221; Brendan Borrell reports on proposed changes in the American Psychiatric Association
s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for the identification of bipolar disorder. In addition to presenting the basic information, Mr. Borrell has alternative views by Dr. Gabrielle Carlson and Dr. David Axelson.
Psychiatrists in favor of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scitable on Autism</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/scitable-on-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/05/scitable-on-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publishers of Nature are promoting a new site, Scitable. The publishers bill Scitable as &#8220;a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world&#8217;s leading publisher of science. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.&#8221; Autism is [...]]]></description>
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