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The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism (Hardcover)
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The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism (Hardcover)
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The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism delves deep into the
full body of past and current research to reveal how genetic
predispositions and environmental factors can combine to produce
the conditions autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). To make
this groundbreaking volume, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler combed through
the past fifty years of published research on autism, exploring
subjects such as genetic variation, mechanisms of neurotoxicity of
metals and pesticides, and the central and combined roles of each
in causing autism. Lyons-Weiler provides a major overview of all
aspects of the condition of autism, reviews changes in diagnoses
and treatments, and explains how genetic information can be used to
tailor effective treatments, and sometimes reversals, of the
symptoms. He also presents practical forward-looking suggestions on
how to design future studies to facilitate the discovery of
biomarkers for autism risk and how to classify the full range of
autism spectrum disorders. Autism is considered one of the most
mystifying conditions of our day, and alarmed scientists, doctors,
politicians, and parents are desperately trying to understand why
the condition is escalating. According to the CDC, rates in the
United States have risen from an estimated one in two thousand
children in 1980, to one in sixty-eight in 2012, and a new National
Health Interview Survey shows a rate of one in forty-five. By the
time you read this book, that number may have changed yet again.
While most autism researchers focus on either environmental or
genetic causes of autism, Lyons-Weiler's opus demonstrates that to
fully understand the condition and to finally put its rate on the
decrease, it is essential to pay attention to the science showing
how the two classes of factors interact.
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