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  2. Heritability of autism - Wikipedia

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    Heritability of autism. The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation; if the heritability of a condition is high, then the condition is considered to be primarily genetic. Autism has a strong genetic basis. Although the genetics of autism are complex, autism ...

  3. Causes of autism - Wikipedia

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    There are many known environmental, genetic, and biological causes of autism. Research indicates that genetic factors are predominant in the appearance of autism; however, the heritability of autism is complex, and many of the genetic interactions involved are unknown. [ 1] In rare cases, autism has been associated with agents that cause birth ...

  4. Refrigerator mother theory - Wikipedia

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    The refrigerator mother theory, also known as Bettelheim's theory of autism, is a largely abandoned psychological fringe theory that the cause of autism is a lack of parental, and in particular, maternal emotional warmth. Evidence against the refrigerator mother theory began in the late 1970s, with twin studies suggesting a genetic etiology, as ...

  5. An adult with autism shares the most important advice he ...

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    An adult with autism shares the most important advice he gives to parents. As an adult with autism, Dr. Kerry Magro fields at least 100 messages a month from parents whose children are the autism ...

  6. Autism - Wikipedia

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    Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder [a] (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), [10] is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally ...

  7. Most families with autistic children don't travel. Here's how ...

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    Many of the over 20 million families with a child on the spectrum can relate to the Spielmans. Eighty-seven percent of families with an autistic child report that they don’t take family ...

  8. Child euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became the first country since the end of Nazi Germany to decriminalize euthanasia for infants with hopeless prognosis and intractable pain. [ 1 ]

  9. Autism therapies - Wikipedia

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    Parent-mediated interventions offer support and practical advice to parents of autistic children. [69] A 2013 Cochrane Review found that there was no evidence of gains in most of the primary measures of the studies (e.g., the child's adaptive behaviour), however there was strong evidence for a positive pattern of change in parent-child ...