Autism Drugs

The development of effective drugs to treat autism moved a step closer this week after possibly the biggest breakthrough in the history of research into the illness.  A massive genetic study comparing the DNA of more than 12,000 individuals has apparently established conclusively a specific genetic link to autism.  Researchers and autism campaigners have already [...]

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in the US are trying to establish a possible link between the hormone oxytocin and a possible cause of autism.  Oxytocin, ‘the love hormone’ or ‘the cuddle hormone’  has been in the news a lot recently as a result of growing research [...]