Dr. Brown’s Clinic Notes: Autism and Fever

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by admin

(from Dr. Brown’s ABA4Autism Blog)
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics reports that high fever decreases the symptoms of autism. Many parents have already observed this relationship, but this is the first study that documents the effect. Clinicians have also documented this effect. In 1980, a viral epidemic causing high fever hit Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital [...]

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85% Divorce Rate of Autism Parents / Autism Abuse and Murder

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by admin

A lot of you probably saw the story this week on 13 year old, Jacob Grabe, who had autism and was killed by his dad in September.  (Autism’s terrible toll: Parents risk hitting “a breaking point”)
The article talks about parents reaching their breaking point and killing their child.  These stories are not new and very [...]

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Filed under: Abuse, Autism in the news, Divorce, Stress

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