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• Autism Linked To Pesticide Exposure

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:34 pm

  Tags: Health, Autism And Pesticides, Autism Pesticides, Autism Society Of America, Autistic Children, Developmental Disability, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Horrible Disease, Organophosphate Insecticides, Pesticide Exposure, Seizures, Toxic Exposure

  disability, down syndrome, epilepsy, horrible disease, organophosphate insecticides, pesticide exposure, seizures, toxic exposureIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

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• Utah Special Olympians Unable to Swim Due to Diaper Ban

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:25 pm

  Tags: Water, Health, Sports, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Epilepsy, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Special Olympics

  girl who has autism and epilepsy was barred from competing after a lifeguard “spotted a woman hurriedly removing a dry diaper from her 14-year-old daughter.” The swimmer had already won a medal in an earlier event before it was realized that she was wearing diapers. There has been a ban in Utah against swimmers in diapers since

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• What Happens When Autism Is No Longer the Disease du Jour ?

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Money, Autism Organizations, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Celebrities, Charities, Children, Education, Epilepsy, Family, Health, Money, Pdd Nos, Philanthropy

  Is it possible that autism is getting too much attention not only in the public eye, but also among philanthropies and the media? According to ABC News, “The 1,000 biggest U.S. private foundations nearly doubled their autism-related giving to $2.7 million between 1998 and 2005, the New York-based Foundation Center reports.” Autism has

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• BRAIN CHIP: The Case of Terry Parker Jr. v. Sick Kids and Sicker Doctors

  Published: November 3, 2007, 11:32 pm

  Tags: Canada, Toronto, Army, Brain, Care, Case, Chip, Cop, Court, Doctor, Drug, Epilepsy, Health, Job, Kid, Law, Life, Marijuana, Medical, Parker, People, Pharma, Police, Pot, Profession, Science, Sick, Soldier, Surgery, Technology, Terry, Treatment, Troop, Victim, Wor

  . ::::  ((((  GEOCITIES.COM / TERRY PARKER JR  ))))  :::: . read more

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• ‘Heroes’ Cast Attend The Race To Fight Epilepsy Event

  Published: November 15, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: Hayden Panettiere, Kristen Bell, Milo Ventimiglia, Greg Grunberg, Race To Fight Epilepsy

  Members of NBC’s hit Heroes attended the Race To Fight Epilepsy event including Greg Grunberg, Hayden Panettiere, Kristen Bell and Milo Ventimiglia. The night started off at the Skirball Centre by celebrites driving off in Lamborghini’s. How fun is that?! They sure know how to throw a party. I am sure by the afternoon [...]

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• UK Games May Begin Mandatory Epilepsy Testing [News]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Epilepsy, News, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Ubisoft

  risk for photosensitivity epilepsy....However, we took the view that different people can react in different ways and made a decision to prescreen and pretest all Ubisoft in-house developed games regardless of platform, prior to publication.Nobody wants trouble here, Ms. Herford. Please back away from the courts, slowly... Mother strikes a

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• Epilepsy and brain pathology linked together by protein ADK

  Published: January 3, 2008, 7:41 am

  Tags: Health, Epilepsy, Epilepsy Treatment

  The brain of individuals who suffer from epilepsy is characterized by astrogliosis, a brain pathology evidenced by a complex series of changes in the morphology and function of brain cells known as astrocytes.

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• Autism Disorder and Impulse Control

  Published: January 19, 2008, 2:27 am

  Tags: Impulses, Epilepsy, Conor, Autism Disorder, Impulse Control, Behavioral Seizure

  on comorbidity of autism and epilepsy. Putting a new name on them may well be helpful in leading to other literature and understanding but I suspect that the behavior itself when it happens will always be startling and

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• ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day [Is That A Catchphrase Or Epilepsy?]

  Published: January 25, 2008, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Espn Commentary, Is That A Catchphrase Or Epilepsy

  ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to finds its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ... • "This isn't typical WSU basketball. They were not sharp on defense the way they usually are." -- PZicklerPrevious ESPN Featured Comment of the Day, plus a Featured Deadspin Response or two ...

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• Neurontin 0, Placebo 1. Pfizer loses, Placebo wins.

  Published: April 21, 2008, 5:14 am

  Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, Weblogs, Articles, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Echo Chamber Effect, Epilepsy, Fierce Pharma, Gabapentin, Journals, Neurontin, Off Label Usage, Pfizer, Soulful Sepulcher, Tim Carey, Wsj Blog

  is FDA-approved for epilepsy ONLY. But gabapentin has a slew of off-label uses. Don't know what off-label means? It means "not FDA-approved to be prescribed for this use." Now that we've got that out of the way, gabapentin is prescribed off-label for migraines, bipolar disorder, social anxiety disorder, OCD,

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• So Is It Really Autism?: The search for medical signs

  Published: May 20, 2008, 4:00 am

  Tags: Adolescence, Crime, Diagnosis, Medicine, Neuroscience, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Autsm Blog, Brain, Brain Blog, Eeg, Epilepsy, Legal, Mri, Murder, Parents, Pdd Nos, Seizure, Special Education

  specializes in seizures and epilepsy and he’s been very sure that Charlie is not having seizures. We’ve a few friends whose children do have Landau-Kleffner and/or epilepsy and there are differences in the types of teaching and other treatments that a child best responds to. There’s something about finding a medical,

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• Last Week's Top Posts

  Published: May 25, 2008, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Disability Rights, Education, Family, Health, Insurance, Legal Issues, Neuroscience, Religion, Safety, Sports, Vaccines, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Autism Blog, Catholic, Catholicism, Epilepsy, Inclusion, Jenny Mccarthy, Mercury, Mother, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Pdd Nos, Priest, Res

  blog, catholic, catholicism, epilepsy, inclusion, jenny mccarthy, mercury, mother, olympics, oscar pistorius, pdd-nos, priest, Religion, restraining order, teacher, timeout, VaccinesShare This

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• Genetic Cause for Childhood Absence Epilepsy Identified

  Published: June 2, 2008, 3:48 pm

  Tags: Genetics, Health, Neuroscience, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Autism Blog, Brain, Disabilities Blog, Epilepsy, Genes, Grand Mal, Pdd Nos, Petit Mal, Seizure

  time to time thereafter. [Epilepsy.com] The Childhood Absence Epilepsy Family Study also notes that CAE is also known as “Petit Mal” or epilepsy with “staring spells.” CAE is an inherited disorder and accounts for 10-12 percent of cases of childhood epilepsy. The new study that points to a genetic cause for CAE appears

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• Seizure-Inducing DS Game May Change Testing Laws in UK [Raving Rabbids Triggers Epileptic Fit]

  Published: June 12, 2008, 11:00 am

  Tags: Raving Rabbids Triggers Epileptic Fit, Epilepsy, Nintendo, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Ubisoft

  tested. MUM'S NINTENDO EPILEPSY BATTLE [The Evening Post]

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• Rumor: Sony's WipEout HD Fails Epilepsy Test; Delayed

  Published: July 22, 2008, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Sony, Delayed, Epilepsy, Psn, Racer, Sce Studio Liverpool, Scee, Wipeout Hd

  racer failed the failed epilepsy tests. In fact, it failed so badly it will have to be re-engineered before release. I’m listing this as a rumor because CVG doesn’t reference its sources, although I can easily see how the game might trigger seizures. The news is disappointing, but it’s better to find out about the inherent

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