Predicting Autism: Study Links Infant Brain Connections to Diagnoses
Chapel Hill NC: For the first time, autism researchers used MRIs of six-month olds to show how brain regions are connected and synchronized, and then predict which babies are at high risk of developing autism […]
Your World and You: Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health – Issue 41 (Premium)
Environmental and Nutritional Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health This feature highlights reports, studies, and feedback on efforts that can make a positive impact in our quest for health. Topics we cover in this issue are included […]
Will This Wristband Help You Reduce Stress? (Premium)
Many of our readers know that stress can negatively affect our lives in many ways. Anxiety, tics, hyperactivity, digestive problems and a change in eating and sleeping habits are just a few of many ramifications […]
Tourette-Like Tics Vanish in Mice Treated with Histamine
A new study supports previous reports of a link between tics and histamine, a neurotransmitter associated with allergy. For many years our organization, Association for Comprehensive NeuroTherapy, has promoted the concept of an allergic and […]
Beyond Food Additives: How Feingold Diet Helped Family (Premium)
As a toddler, Garrett would bang his head when he got frustrated; he would go into rages, unable to control himself. Even as a very young child, he was tormented with fears —loud noises, bugs, […]
Body Brushing Therapy for Tactile Defensiveness
This article was updated to provide a new summary and resources. Many youngsters on the autistic spectrum display signs of hypersensitivity to touch. Diane Corson, OT, PT, incorporates therapeutic body brushing into her work as […]
Key Nutrients for ADHD, OCD, and Tics
Dr. James Greenblatt is chief medical officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. Founder and medical director of Comprehensive […]
Finding Help for Arjan’s Devastating Tics (Premium)
ARJAN’S MOM with commentary from Sheila DeMare, MS My family lives in India, outside Mumbai. Our son, Arjan, is an only child and he just turned six years old. We have gone through through a […]
10 Surprising Answers About Air Fresheners
According to Professor Anne Steinemann, air fresheners are more dangerous to our health than we realize. Dr. Steinemann is an internationally recognized scientist, with more than 20 years of experience helping people create healthier living […]
Your World and You: Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health – Issue 40 (Premium)
Environmental and Nutritional Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health This feature highlights reports, studies, and feedback on efforts that can make a positive impact in our quest for health. Topics we cover in this issue are included […]
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