Today was DSM5 Autism Do-Over Day at IMFAR 2012. Dr. Susan Swedo, head of the DSM5 committee that drafted the DSM5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, spoke twice today, once at a…
“Catherine Lord, the director of the Institute for Brain Development at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a member of the committee overseeing the revisions, said that the goal was to ensure that…
I have a son with a DSM-IV Autistic Disorder diagnosis who is also assessed with profound developmental "delays". I have expressed my concerns on several occasions about the terms of…
In Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders Lack Reliability Pysch Central senior news editor Rick Naubert Ph.D., (article reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psych D) reports on a new study by…
The DLM5: Dr. Laurent Mottron's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Advantages If you authored or coauthored several journal articles a year over many years, involving high functioning, highly intelligent…
It is common place today to refer to autism(s), plural, rather than autism, singular. So why is the DSM5 combing the autisms into one Autism Spectrum Disorder? It is common…
Stephanie of Autism and Oughtisms has posted a guest comment on the site Teaching the Teachers, Educating an Autistic Child is an Opportunity, in which, like many other parents and…
What is severe autism? Kim Oakley asks the question rhetorically before answering it in Silent Alarm. I strongly recommend anyone who wants to know what severe autism is read this…
WordNet Dictionary Noun1.shell game - a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under Synonyms: thimblerig The DSM-5 treatm...
July 17 2011 Neurodevelopmental Disorders DSM Work GroupAmerican Psychiatric Association Dear NDD Work Group Members I am the father of a 15 year old son diagnosed at age 2 with…
I have written previously that persons who presently have autistic disorder or PDD-NOS and who are also intellectually disabled will be removed from the DSM-5's New Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whereas…
Neuron, Cover Page, 23 June, 2011 Volume 70, Issue 6 The abstract for the study Disrupted Neural Synchronization in Toddlers with Autism, reported in the current issue of Neuron, indicates…
Elizabeth Landau, a CNN Health writer/producer, mentions briefly the DSM-5's New Autism Spectrum Disorder, in a report on the organizational changes in the DSM-5 in Psychiatry 'bible' structure overhauled. Ms.…
The newly reported autism study from South Korea with its "shocking" 1 in 38 autism rates figure doesn't make much sense. As reported in the Boston Globe: "Roy Richard Grinker,…
Will the DSM5 render meaningless all autism research to date? Will the DSM5 make it impossible to determine whether autism disorders are increasing or whether they are triggered or caused…
