Posts Tagged ‘Autism’

A review of the genetic and biochemical abnormalities associated with autism reveals a possible link between the widely diagnosed neurological disorder and Type 2 diabetes, another medical disorder on the rise in recent decades. “It appears that both Type 2 diabetes and autism have a common underlying mechanism — impaired glucose tolerance and hyperinsulinemia,” said Rice University biochemist Michael Stern, author of the opinion paper, which appears online in this month’s issue of Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology. For more: www.media.rice.edu

Joseph Piven is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He discusses the idea that the autistic brain grows too large. By using MRI and other imaging techniques he finds increased brain volume in autistic individuals. Series: “MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders” [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12870]