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This 40-year-old man has a 16-year-old daughter along with his 39-year-old ex-wife. To be honest, the reason he filed to divorce his ex-wife is that she is truly one mean woman. His ex-wife always delighted in making fun of people. She would always point out what she perceived to be flaws in other people and…

While Autism Awareness Month may have started with good intentions, every April my autism support groups are flooded with upset reactions to Autism Awareness posts. While these posts mean well, because society’s conditioned people to beware of autism, they usually come out infantilizing, condescending, or even dehumanizing, advocating for the end of autism…which they don’t…

Your browser does not support the video tag. Pause Feeling it out: Three human microglia survey their surroundings in a new experimental setup for studying the cells. Courtesy of Fred Gage / Salk Institute Clusters of human cells grafted onto the brains of mice have enabled scientists to probe for the first time how microglia…

By William Anixter, MD, with Courtney Kelly. Autism spectrum disorder (hereafter referred to as “autism”) is a complex, multidimensional condition far from fully understood. Though its etiology is still under investigation, its diagnostic criteria are constantly evolving, and its presentation varies significantly from individual to individual, challenges or differences interacting with others have remained one…

I have a lot of things going on in my self-contained classroom throughout the school day.  Thankfully, I have iPads in my classroom that allow me to quickly set up centers and reinforce my students.  iPads and technology can get noisy quickly, so I needed to find a solution to decrease the noise in my…

Do the seeds of neurodiversity come from the family tree? It’s a question we’ve been asking in one form or another since the early 1900s, when psychiatrists first began writing about the collection of symptoms we now refer to as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Over a century later, our understanding of autism has grown by…

In the U.S., almost 20 percent of children have developmental delays, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, learning disabilities or speech and language disorders. These disorders are usually diagnosed in childhood and have specific and time-intensive treatments based on severity. The prevalence of some of these disorders is rising, including autism. The Centers for Disease…

Many years ago, at the conclusion of a talk I gave on bone health in teens with anorexia nervosa, I was approached by a colleague, Ann Neumeyer, MD, medical director of the Lurie Center for Autism at Massachusetts General Hospital, who asked about bone health in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When I explained…

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I’m your host, Dr Andrew Wilner, reporting virtually from the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dana Allison about her presentation, “A Survey of Virtual Reality Interventions for Autistic Spectrum…

As a practicing Limited Licensed Psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst in the State of Michigan, who own and operate the McCrory Center for Behavioral Health, I am all too familiar with this condition and have spent the last six years helping others understand Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), I believe it is important to continue…