When pediatrician Kristin Sohl isn’t building programs to improve care for and research about autistic people, you can find her reading psychological thrillers or playing Pokémon Go.
On 26 January, Catherine Lord, distinguished professor of psychiatry and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Tony Charman, chair of clinical child psychology at King’s College London in the United Kingdom, will speak about the Lancet Commission’s recommendations and the use of the term ‘profound autism.’ Register here.
Socioeconomic status, maternal depression during pregnancy and maternal smoking appear to influence autism trait severity in children, according to birth cohort study in Australia. Autism
Medical trainees and doctors in Russia have limited knowledge of treatment options for autism. BMC Medical Education
An autistic woman fired for “unprofessional communication” has sued her North Carolina-based employer, invoking the Americans with Disabilities Act. The News & Observer
10 years ago at Spectrum
On 11 January 2012, Spectrum reported on results showing that autistic girls tend to carry more autism-linked mutations than autistic boys do. Two years ago, researchers plumbed a large dataset to calculate that autistic women average 22 gene variants to autistic men’s 18. Both sets of findings support the idea of a ‘female protective effect,’ in which it takes more genetic ‘hits’ in women than in men to result in autism.
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