Learning to Cope with Autism
The video “Fixing Autism” on our video landing was sent to us by Mark Kodenski, a partner at Brown Advisory who has a child with autism. It was sent to him by autism awareness activist Adrienne...
View ArticleBig Fish Q&A with WBAL Radio Journalist and Autism Activist Mary Beth Marsden
About one-third of the way into Michael Kun’s wry 2003 epistolary comic novel The Locklear Letters, congenial, if often clueless, protagonist Sid Straw pitches himself as a prospective columnist to...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Launches New Center for Autism Research & Education
Autism is a growing issue: in 2002, 1 in 150 children was identified as being on the autism spectrum; by 2008, that number had grown to 1 in every 88 children. That’s one reason why the launch of the...
View ArticleTreating Autism with Broccoli?
Broccoli is good for you — no seriously, it’s really good for you. That’s the message I take away from this recent research from Johns Hopkins, which indicates that a chemical derived from broccoli...
View ArticleHow Hopkins Is Using Mouse Whiskers to Study Autism
Medical research regularly uses mice to test out hypotheses. And usually, those mice are dead. But some really exciting research out of Johns Hopkins has found a new way to study the neuroscience of...
View ArticleObese Mothers, Autistic Children?
What causes autism, and why has there been such an increase in the number of children diagnosed with the condition over the past few decades? That question has resulted in much fraught debate–and some...
View ArticleCertain Nutrients Bad for Pregnant Women, Hopkins Study Warns
Vitamins are good, right? Well, it’s complicated, according to new research out of Johns Hopkins. As if pregnant women didn’t need another thing to feel nervous about, now scientists are warning that...
View ArticleLearning to Cope with Autism
The video “Fixing Autism” on our video landing was sent to us by Mark Kodenski, a partner at Brown Advisory who has a child with autism. It was sent to him by autism awareness activist Adrienne...
View ArticleBig Fish Q&A with WBAL Radio Journalist and Autism Activist Mary Beth Marsden
About one-third of the way into Michael Kun’s wry 2003 epistolary comic novel The Locklear Letters, congenial, if often clueless, protagonist Sid Straw pitches himself as a prospective columnist to...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Launches New Center for Autism Research & Education
Autism is a growing issue: in 2002, 1 in 150 children was identified as being on the autism spectrum; by 2008, that number had grown to 1 in every 88 children. That’s one reason why the launch of the...
View ArticleTreating Autism with Broccoli?
Broccoli is good for you — no seriously, it’s really good for you. That’s the message I take away from this recent research from Johns Hopkins, which indicates that a chemical derived from broccoli...
View ArticleHow Hopkins Is Using Mouse Whiskers to Study Autism
Medical research regularly uses mice to test out hypotheses. And usually, those mice are dead. But some really exciting research out of Johns Hopkins has found a new way to study the neuroscience of...
View ArticleObese Mothers, Autistic Children?
What causes autism, and why has there been such an increase in the number of children diagnosed with the condition over the past few decades? That question has resulted in much fraught debate–and some...
View ArticleCertain Nutrients Bad for Pregnant Women, Hopkins Study Warns
Vitamins are good, right? Well, it’s complicated, according to new research out of Johns Hopkins. As if pregnant women didn’t need another thing to feel nervous about, now scientists are warning that...
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