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		<title>Autism and Marijuana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Myung-Ok Lee gives her autistic son pot: Last summer, we reached the six-month mark in our cannabis experiment. We&#8217;d been using medical marijuana to help quell our autistic son&#8217;s gut pain and anxiety, and we were seeing some huge changes in his behavior and, presumably, his happiness. J was smiling, interacting (one of home-based [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Extremely Male Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first read about autism-expert Simon Baron-Cohen &#8212; whose theory is that autism results from an extremely male brain &#8212; his unusual name stuck with me: If his name sounds familiar, that may be because his first cousin is Sacha Baron Cohen, of Borat fame. &#8220;We&#8217;re very proud of him in the family,&#8221; he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Study links child&#8217;s autism, parents&#8217; mental illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study links child&#39;s autism, parents&#39; mental illness: &#8220;Our research shows that mothers and fathers diagnosed with schizophrenia were about twice as likely to have a child diagnosed with autism,&#8221; said Julie Daniels of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who worked on the study. &#8220;We also saw higher rates of depression and personality disorders [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly, it&#8217;s difficult to watch the first third of Amanda Bagg&#8217;s video about her autistic way of thinking. Then the computer-generated voice kicks in, speaking the words she has typed: David Wolman discusses The Truth About Autism: The YouTube post, she says, was a political statement, designed to call attention to people&#8217;s tendency to underestimate [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fever can unlock autism&#8217;s grip</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/12/fever-can-unlock-autisms-grip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fever can unlock autism&#8217;s grip: It appears that fever restores nerve cell communications in regions of the autistic brain, restoring a child&#8217;s ability to interact and socialize during the fever, the study said. &#8220;The results of this study are important because they show us that the autistic brain is plastic, or capable of altering current [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Prenatal testosterone may play autism role</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/09/prenatal-testosterone-may-play-autism-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prenatal testosterone may play autism role: Children exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb showed more autism-related traits later in life, according to findings that suggest the male hormone may play a key role in the complex brain disorder. The results support a hypothesis that higher levels of testosterone may contribute to autism [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Study links autism with growth hormones, big heads</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/06/study-links-autism-with-growth-hormones-big-heads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study links autism with growth hormones, big heads: Writing in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, Dr. James Mills of the NICHD and colleagues said they compared the height, weight, head circumference and levels of growth-related hormones to growth and maturation in 71 boys with autism to a group of 59 healthy boys. The boys with autism [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism: It’s Not Just in the Head</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/03/autism-it%e2%80%99s-not-just-in-the-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism: It’s Not Just in the Head notes that &#8220;the devastating derangements of autism also show up in the gut and in the immune system&#8221; — and that may point to new treatment options: “I no longer see autism as a disorder of the brain but as a disorder that affects the brain,” Herbert says. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When Two Minds Think Alike</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/11/when-two-minds-think-alike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Baron-Cohen says that autism is more common When Two Minds Think Alike: Over the years I&#8217;ve been struck by a pattern among the parents of children with autism. The mothers often say things like &#8220;my child is a lot like my husband — just writ large. My husband has to watch the weather forecasts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Autistic basketball player causes mayhem at game</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/02/autistic-basketball-player-causes-mayhem-at-game/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/02/autistic-basketball-player-causes-mayhem-at-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autistic basketball player causes mayhem at game: Jason McElway, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester NY, served as the team manager and spirit coach for several years. On the final game of the season the coach let him finally put on a uniform with the rest of the team. Watch what happens [&#8230;]]]></description>
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