Dennis Kucinich on Afghanistan: ‘Get Out, Get Out, Get Out’

Staff / Truthdig May 5, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Rep Dennis Kucinich takes "nothing good" from the president's visit to Afghanistan, Robert Scheer on China, Occupiers and organizers, and California's autism unfairnesscom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Rep. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CDC Registers Rise in Autism Rate

Staff / Truthdig Mar 30, 2012 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a significant uptick in autism diagnoses in several areas of the country that were part of a study published Thursday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Culture or Neurons?

By Susan Okie Mar 9, 2012 What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Two new books suggest distinct approaches to such elemental questions.What accounts for our species' self-consciousness and awareness of our mortality, for our impulses to create art, to cling to our memories of childhood, to believe in a deity? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Facebook May Morph Your Brain

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2011 Here we have the latest news in the blossoming social networking subdiscipline of neurology, about which we are not entirely kidding, as a team of researchers from University College London has found a possible link between the size of their subjects' flocks of Facebook friends and the size of certain parts of their brains. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Amazon’s Sweatshop

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2011 Amazon's warehouse has brutal working conditions; women are beginning to take over the workforce; meanwhile, a website and app have been developed to tell you how many slaves are working for you. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Autism Study Shifts Focus From Nature to Nurture

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2011 Research on autism in recent decades has emphasized the contributing role of genetics, but a new study out of UCSF and Stanford might prove to be a game-changer, ranking environmental factors (e.g., parenting) higher than biology in order of importance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Doctors Propose Revisions to DSM Manual

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2010 What ends up (or doesn't) in the DSM manual, otherwise known as the bible of psychiatry, can have a major impact on patients, doctors and, of course, Big Pharma. So, it's no surprise that the debates and discussions around what will be included in the DSM's fifth edition are already involved and intense, some three years before the guidebook is due to be released. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What Really Causes Autism? Thousands of Parents Still Blame Vaccines

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2009 Tens of thousands of parents are refusing to accept the medical research that shows little correlation between vaccines and autism and are taking on the medical establishment.Thousands of parents are refusing to accept the medical research that shows little correlation between vaccines and autism. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Outcry on Savage’s Savage Comment About Autism

Staff / Truthdig Jul 24, 2008 Shock jock Michael Savage clearly has an overblown sense of the extent of his "expertise" on a wide range of topics, but he overstepped his bounds by attempting armchair psychology about a sensitive subject last week -- autism -- and drew fire from angry parents and supporters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Men Have Biological Clocks Too

Staff / Truthdig Sep 5, 2006 A group of U.S. and UK researchers have suggested that children born to older fathers are likelier to develop autism. The study of 132,271 Israeli children implies the possibility that men also have time constraints on procreation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Army Recruits Teen Despite His Autism

Staff / Truthdig May 9, 2006 The youth is signed up for dangerous front-line service, but did not even know there was a war going on until last fall--after he was approached by the recruiter. An internal Army investigation is underway, but such recruiting abuses are systemic. (Via Bring It On!) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )