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Four more years? How about five!

President of the United States Donald Trump has signed the Autism Cares Act, an initiative that promises 1.8 billion dollars in resources towards autism research, services and treatment.

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There are many signs of climate change. Rising temperatures. Melting ice caps. Polar bears installing air conditioners in their islands. Okay, so maybe the last sign is not so readily available. But there is plenty of information to indicate we need to make changes for our environment.

Greta Thunberg is a teenage activist who’s appearances at events such as those in the United Nations has recently led her to battle much more than political leaders. Her Asperger’s syndrome, which has been called a “gift” is being returned in a nasty way from her critics.

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There are a lot of names to call autism these days, especially in the United States. With the changes to the diagnostics manuals used in the U.S. in 2013, some may be tempted to say that Asperger’s no longer exists.

This omission may not only be unpopular among those who prefer the title, it may also be detrimental.

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Treatments given through the nasal cavity have brought convenience and relief, and now Japanese researchers have developed a promising therapeutic device they believe will ease the symptoms of autism.

Push aside your allergy treatments, it’s time to make room for the Oxytocin Autism spray in your cabinet.

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Francesca Happé, noted researcher on autism, has said:

“Research on autism has systematically neglected and excluded women and girls—researchers often thought that they’d get so few women that they left them out entirely.”

And that’s just one of the many reasons a seemingly “male” stereotyped syndrome has so few females in its literature.

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The news is in and it is confirmed. Men and women really do have different brains. Autistics have even different brains.

So says Simon Baron-Cohen and a group of colleagues at the University of Cambridge after concluding a study that included approximately 700,000 people in the United Kingdom.

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In the world of discovery and invention, it’s often been said that women are left out of the ending credits to the film.

An article from Scientific American suggests this may be true for accurately describing those with Asperger’s or autism.

Ladies, be prepared to either rejoice or roll your eyes in contempt as you read about a Russian’s reports of several adolescents in the early 1920s.

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The world of testing for disease has expanded more than ever.

While autism is thought to originate from a variety of causes, one company, NeuroPointDX, is assessing whether the processing of certain amino acids may be linked to those on the spectrum.

This week, the company debuted what is recognized as the first blood test for autism.

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