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Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . . After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child's genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we're often told. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor: perhaps a genetic mutation, some toxic exposures, a stressful birth, a vitamin deficiency, and a series of infections. And while other doctors may dismiss your child's physical symptoms - the diarrhea, anxiety, sensory overload, sleeplessness, immune challenges, and seizures - as coincidental or irrelevant, Dr.



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Karen Weintraub

A longtime newspaper journalist, Karen Weintraub is now a freelance writer, journalism professor and book author. Her first book, "The Autism Revolution," with Harvard autism expert Dr. Martha Herbert, was published in April 2012, by Random House. Her second, "Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD (Or Think You Might) ," with Drs. Craig Surman and Tim Bilkey, will be published in February 2013. Her journalism has appeared in a range of publications and websites, including The Boston Globe, USA Today, the BBC online and Nature. She teaches at the Harvard Extension School and Boston University's Graduate Program in Science Journalism. Links to her health/science journalism are available on KarenWeintraub.com.



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