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Parents Speak About Autism: It is a Race
Autism: It is a Race is an unedited guest post from JB, President & Chairman of the Board, Dynamis, Inc., Arlington, Virginia. [Mercedes’ note: Focusing on the cellular/molecular side of autism research all day, it’s easy to get tunnel vision. In honor of Autism Awareness Month (April), it seemed a good idea to take pause and ... -
Parents Speak About Autism: A Letter to My Son
Letter to My Son is a guest post from Brigitte Paradis, Project Manager, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Canada. [Mercedes’ note: Focusing on the cellular/molecular side of autism research all day, it’s easy to get tunnel vision. In honor of Autism Awareness Month (April), it seemed a good idea to take pause and consider the broader picture. This ... -
Think Science Now Workshop on Engaging New Audiences in Science
Improving education in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for underrepresented minorities was the focus of the 2012 STEM Summit, held yesterday at the Newark Museum. The summit, geared towards both professionals in STEM careers and educators, featured a compelling keynote address from Citizen Schools CEO, Eric Schwarz. Pulling professionals from STEM fields ... -
Quantitative Model-Based Translational Pharmacology: A Path to New Medicines
Far too many potential drugs fail to act as expected during clinical trials. Promising preclinical, animal study data used to move a drug candidate forward along the drug development path, far too often, don’t replicate in humans. The pharmaceutical industry is striving to enhance its predictive models so as to increase successful translation from preclinical stages ... -
In Search of Biomarkers for Autism
According to the National Institutes of Health, biomarkers are a biological “characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention.”1 The identification of biomarkers has positively impacted human health and activity. For instance, most people know that LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) ... -
Curing Heart Disease in the Neuroscience Department?
Those of you who read my blogs regularly know that I typically restrict my musings to the field of neuroscience so if you are a bit thrown by the title of this blog, bear with me… It’s tough to go a day without hearing a news story about heart disease. After all, it is the ... -
Upcoming Brain Barriers Meeting
I’m getting really excited now that a meeting I’m helping organize at the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) on October 25th – Brain Barriers: A Hurdle for Drug Discovery – is fast approaching! Places where the brain meets the rest of the body are areas where a protective barrier is formed, the main one ... -
Autism Screening Debate
The August 15th issue of American Family Physician (AFP) alerted me that something that I thought was plainly agreed upon by medical experts is really an intense area of debate. AFP presented two editorials: one arguing for and one arguing against the routine screening of young children for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Upon looking into ... -
Another Study Links Environment with Autism
My last blog highlighted new data suggesting an environmental link with autism. No sooner than that study was released, a new one came out revealing an even stronger link between autism and environmental factors. What is astonishing is that this new study suggests the environment may influence more than half of all autism cases. This ... -
Seasonal Link to Autism Risk
An interesting new epidemiological study proposes a relationship between season of conception and one’s risk of developing autism. Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, a professor at the UC Davis Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Institute, led the study wherein her team used information from California statewide service databases to analyze more than 6.5 million births spanning ...