The Autism Connection

Should We Be Blaming Just Genes for the Increase in Autism? We can't blame our genes for this horrible disease anymore! What's causing the increase in Autism cases in children? The danger of having an autistic child is very real.  According to the CDC about one out of every 100 children are born with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  But what is the cause of this horrible disease? For a long time scientists believed that autism is caused by bad genes.  Until recently. Since 1980 there was a dramatic rise in the new cases of Autism.  This was difficult to explain with bad genes, because if a disease is linked to genes, its prevalence is relatively stable.  But what happened with autism looked more like an epidemic.  Because there is no known epidemic in genes, they started looking for explanations (1).  What they found was that the mathematical model can be explained by bad genes only in 38 percent of new cases (2).  What about the rest?  They did not have any choice then to admit that environmental factors can play a role. That matches a second recent study (3) that found the link between using antidepressants during pregnancy and autism.  Even though they say that the risk is low it is there.  Is it antidepressants themselves or is something wrong with depressed future mothers? Below are suggested alternative explanations of Autism (4): 1.  Heavy metals, mostly mercury, because its neurotoxicity is very well known.  Remember the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wo...
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