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/ˈɔːtɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈɔˌtɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɔˌtɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people
How To Use autism In A Sentence
- Autopsies on deceased people with autism also show chronic neuro-inflammation and activation of the same brain cells, known as glial cells. David Kirby: Dr. Bernadine Healy: Don't Dismiss Vaccine Link
- As long there's no good protocolled way of diagnosing autism, done by well trained teams of psychologists and psychiatrists what is called autism can be anything. Autism: A journey of recovery
- We have taken Emma to countless doctors, and any number of people with letters following their name lending them some authority or knowledge on autism. Ariane Zurcher: Waging War
- They found a peptide in urine from autistics that increased platelet content of serotonin, which is also a common finding in autism.
- The treatment center was designed to be a one-stop shop for all things—research, treatment, parent education—relating to alternative ways of thinking about autism. The Panic Virus
- Long before its formal recognition in 1943, the concept of autism appeared in folklore.
- So, healthy children who regress into postvaccination autism are the ethical and scientific equivalent of "missing socks"? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- In his now notorious 1998 Lancet paper, Dr Wakefield invited further researches into his MMR-autism hypothesis in the spheres of epidemiology and virology.
- Tuberous sclerosis, untreated phenylketonuria and fragile X syndrome are genetic syndromes associated with autism.
- Chinese boy, suffering from infantile autism, looks at a beluga whale in Changfeng Park in Shanghai December 21, 2005.