Making Tomorrow’s Children Healthy
Harold Buttram, MD An outline of preconception and prenatal care, with an emphasis on nutrition and environmental medicine by environmental physician, Dr. Harold Buttram. When looking for advice on the importance of parental health before […]
Beyond Genetics in ADHD, Tourette’s, and Learning Disorders
Majid Ali, MD An interview with the popular author Dr. Majid Ali. Select text was reprinted in Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourettes. You know that in Latitudes we are looking at autism, Tourette syndrome, […]
The Sensory Connection: Tourettes, ADHD, Autism and Learning Problems
Stella Waterhouse, author of A Positive Approach to Autism, wrote this article for ACN Latitudes. Sensory problems affect people from all walks of life, yet they usually receive little attention. They are found to varying degrees […]
Lenny’s Story: Reversing Autism
Charlie Hoover When I heard these words: “This student demonstrates developmentally appropriate articulation skills and is eligible to attend kindergarten August 2004,” I teared up. Harriet and I were attending a meeting for our five-year-old […]
The Homeopathic Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorders
Homeopathy is a safe and often effective natural therapy for children and adults with ADD/ADHD and its associated symptoms, and recent research has confirmed this. Homeopathic primary care can be effective, though this condition is […]
Craniosacral Therapy Treatment for Autism
Richard MacDonald, DO A mother who sought craniosacral therapy to help her son with autism shared her experience with ACN Latitudes. We asked the practicing physician, Dr. Richard MacDonald, to give us more information on […]
Oxidative-Genetic Brain Dysfunction: The Spectrum of ADHD, Learning Disability, OCD, Autism, Tourette Syndrome
Majid Ali, MD A simple model is presented for understanding the spectrum of Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity, learning disability, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, and Tourette syndrome. In this model, the focus is on developmental and acquired problems […]
Our Legacy to Grandchildren
Linda Weltner wrote this article for the Boston Globe. I was sitting at a coffee shop with friends, all of us grandmothers. We were talking about our amazing grandkids but contrary to what you might […]
Toxicology and the Nervous System: What You Need to Know
Heather Millar, RN, and Myrna Millar, MBA Excerpted with permission from Environmental Health Nursing The nervous system is highly susceptible to xenobiotic injury because a large number of toxic chemicals, many of which are lipophilic […]
Orthomolecular Medicine: An Interview with Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD Sheila Rogers, MS, Director of ACN: When I was developing the advisory board for ACN Latitudes, I asked a medical editor whom he would recommend as an expert in nutrition. He immediately […]