{"id":186712,"date":"2013-11-08T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/08\/another-nail-in-the-anti-vaxxers-delusions\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:23:00","slug":"another-nail-in-the-anti-vaxxers-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/08\/another-nail-in-the-anti-vaxxers-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Nail in the Anti-Vaxxers Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-24837462\">indicatations of autism are present in children in the first 6 months of life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An early indication of autism can be identified in babies under six months old, a study suggests.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">US researchers, writing in Nature, analysed how infants looked at faces from birth to the age of three.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They found children later diagnosed with autism initially developed normally but showed diminished eye contact &#8211; a hallmark of autism &#8211; between two and six months of age.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A UK expert said the findings raise hope for early interventions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the study, researchers led by Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta used eye-tracking technology to measure the way babies looked at and responded to social clues.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They found infants later diagnosed with autism had shown a steady decline in attention to the eyes of other people from the age of two months onwards, when watching videos of natural human interactions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Lead researcher Dr Warren Jones told BBC News: &#8220;It tells us for the first time that it&#8217;s possible to detect some signs of autism in the first months of life.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;These are the earliest signs of autism that we&#8217;ve ever observed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised by this study.<\/p>\n<p>My wife pegged Charlie as being on the spectrum in his first week outside of the womb.  She knew something was different in the first <b>5 minutes<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, she is a trained special educator, so it&#8217;s in her profession.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that autism is present well before when know-nothings claim that vaccinations &#8220;cause&#8221; autism.<\/p>\n<p>Can we please stop listening to Jenny McCarthy Now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined that indicatations of autism are present in children in the first 6 months of life: An early indication of autism can be identified in babies under six months old, a study suggests.US researchers, writing in Nature, analysed how infants looked at faces from birth to the age of three.They found children later &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,1150,1197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical","category-public-health","category-special-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}