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On the other hand, this other baby is going to go on to develop
autism.
Instead of the eyes focusing in and having that social connection, looking at the mouth, looking at the nose, looking off in another direction, but not again socially connecting, and being able to do this on a very large scale, screen infants, screen children for autism, through something very robust, very reliable, is going to be very helpful to us in terms of being able to intervene at an early stage when we can have the greatest impact.
And so in fact, identifying the genes for
autism
is important for us to identify drug targets, to identify things that we might be able to impact and can be certain that that's really what we need to do in
autism.
Individuals with autism, some of them are wired a little bit differently.
All of these new technologies just offer tremendous opportunities for us to be able to impact the individuals with autism, but yet we have a long way to go.
As much as we know, there is so much more that we don't know, and so I invite all of you to be able to help us think about how to do this better, to use as a community our collective wisdom to be able to make a difference, and in particular, for the individuals in families with autism, I invite you to join the interactive
autism
network, to be part of the solution to this, because it's going to take really a lot of us to think about what's important, what's going to be a meaningful difference.
Is it something that's really going to make a difference in your lives, as an individual, as a family with
autism?
We're going to need individuals of all ages, from the young to the old, and with all different shapes and sizes of the
autism
spectrum disorder to make sure that we can have an impact.
So I invite all of you to join the mission and to help to be able to make the lives of individuals with
autism
so much better and so much richer.
Many people justify the high cost of neuroscience research by pointing out that it may help us someday to treat brain disorders like Alzheimer's and
autism.
My son Isaac, when he was two, was diagnosed with autism, and he was this happy, hilarious, loving, affectionate little guy, but the metrics on his developmental evaluations, which looked at things like the number of words — at that point, none — communicative gestures and minimal eye contact, put his developmental level at that of a nine-month-old baby.
The final one is interesting, because the term "refrigerator mother" was actually the original hypothesis for the cause of autism, and that meant somebody who was cold and unloving.
People tend to diagnose
autism
with really specific check-box descriptions, but in reality, it's a whole variation as to what we're like.
People often associate
autism
with liking maths and science and nothing else, but I know so many autistic people who love being creative.
For instance, a lot of people think
autism
and think "Rain Man" immediately.
That is the first thing that people think when they think
autism.
All in all, I wouldn't trade my
autism
and my imagination for the world.
In 1998, a British researcher published an article in one of the most important medical journals, saying that the MMR vaccine, which is given for measles, mumps and rubella, was associated with
autism.
Not only could no one find a causal association between MMR and
autism
at the population level, but it was also found that this article had incorrect claims.
So in mice, microbes have been linked to all kinds of additional conditions, including things like multiple sclerosis, depression, autism, and again, obesity.
We're just finding out that microbes have implications for all these different kinds of diseases, ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to obesity, and perhaps even
autism
and depression.
Giles was the first resident in the first house of the first charity that I set up to pioneer services for
autism.
And then there's been a groundbreaking Prior's Court school for pupils with
autism
and a medical research charity, again, all for
autism.
And I've just started a three-year think tank for
autism.
These can be used with orthopedic or neurologic patients, but we'll soon have options for children with autism, mental health or speech therapy.
Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the
autism
spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.
An effective vaccine against it has been available for more than half a century, but many of the kids involved in the Disneyland outbreak had not been vaccinated because their parents were afraid of something allegedly even worse:
autism.
Don't most science-savvy people know that the theory that vaccines cause
autism
is B.S.? I think most of you do, but millions of parents worldwide continue to fear that vaccines put their kids at risk for
autism.
This is a graph of
autism
prevalence estimates rising over time.
For most of the 20th century,
autism
was considered an incredibly rare condition.
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