by Allison Hall, MD Principals of good parenting like paying attention to positive behavior and using time out may sound easy but can be difficult to put into practice. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has recently created a website on parenting young children with some excellent explanations, useful forms such as schedules and charts […]
Patches of Brain Disorganization Identified in Autism
Characterizing the precise pathology in autistic spectrum disorders, let alone other psychiatric disorders, has remained challenging. Postmortem studies of actual brain tissue are rare but have the potential to provide important clues regarding specific abnormalities in neurodevelopment that are not detectable through other means such as neuroimaging. This major study published in the New England […]
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