{"id":87404,"date":"2019-02-05T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/autism-spectrum-disorders-may-stem-from-multiple-factors"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:22:21","slug":"autism-spectrum-disorders-may-stem-from-multiple-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/autism-spectrum-disorders-may-stem-from-multiple-factors","title":{"rendered":"Autism spectrum disorders may stem from multiple factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autism-spectrum-disorders-may-stem-from-multiple-factors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in California rose by 600 percent from 1990 to 2003. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.ucdavis.edu\/publish\/providerbio\/search\/802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D.<\/a>, director of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Center at the University of California-Davis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19234401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published this statistic<\/a> in the journal Epidemiology a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>The esteemed epidemiologist told the audience during the Jan. 8 NIEHS Distinguished Lecture that she and her colleagues have only been able to explain a third of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo single factor accounts for all autism cases, nor is there one event or exposure that can be responsible for the rapid increase in diagnoses,\u201d said Hertz-Picciotto. \u201cEach child\u2019s path to altered brain development may be different.\u201d Her talk was hosted by NIEHS and National Toxicology Program (NTP) Director Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/505804\/autism-spectrum-disorders-may-stem-from-multiple-factors\/\">https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/505804\/autism-spectrum-disorders-may...e-factors\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosed cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in California rose by 600 percent from 1990 to 2003. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., director of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Center at the University of California-Davis, published this statistic in the journal Epidemiology a decade ago. The esteemed epidemiologist told the audience during the Jan. 8 NIEHS Distinguished [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}