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ARFID Elevates Risk for ADHD, Autism in Youth: New Study

ADDitude

ARFID and Neurodevelopment Disorders The study examined parent reports for 30,795 children born between 1992 and 2008, at 9 or 12 years old (depending on their cohort), from the Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden. It made complete sense, wrote Bird in an ADDitude guest blog post, I went Over 25 Years Without Consuming a Vegetable.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Can Interpersonal Psychotherapy prevent or treat depression among people with Autism Spectrum Disorder? Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008). Bateman, 2012).

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Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?

Mad in America

Some researchers, alarmed at climbing autism rates among children as screen usage surged, have come around to viewing virtual autism as a real syndrome that is reversable. Virtual autism is not yet a medical diagnosis, but today doctors seem to know what it is and how to treat and even prevent it. Psychiatry, vol 12.