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How autism is different in girls vs. boys

Why do boys get diagnosed with autism four times as often as girls?

New research, including some of the latest data from the International Society for Autism Research annual conference last week, addresses this question, one of the biggest mysteries in this field. 

A growing consensus is arguing that sex differences exist in genetic susceptibility, brain development and social learning in autism—and they are meaningful to our understanding of the disorder and how it will be treated.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/05/08/how-autism-is-different-in-girls-vs-boys/#ixzz2Si8IusDq

 
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Alert the Media: Yes, Autistic kids have a Novel Bowel Disease

Editor’s note: You’ve really got to check out and connect people to this interview Andy Wakefield did with Arthur Krigsman, one of the authors of the new journal article that confirmed unusual bowel disease in children with autism. That, you no doubt recall, is what the whole “discredited” Lancet paper was about lo these 15 years, and millions of autism cases, ago. Sadly, the denial of this reality plays out every day, including at Loyola hospital in Chicago where a 14-year-old boy is currently being treated as a psychiatric patient while his mother’s pleas to investigate his GI symptoms have so far gone unheeded. — Dan Olmsted

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