#83: Podcast for Peds - Installment #4 [34:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (797)

Podcast for Peds: Issues related to problems of the developing nervous system.

Focus: The Interactive Autism Network: Interview with ‘IAN’s’ founders Drs. Paul and Kiely Law.

The two pediatricians will discuss their personal family experience with the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and how it led to their founding of IAN. We’ll also discuss how this rapidly growing online community of families and researchers may help us understand the incidence, etiology and pathogenesis of ASDs, and help in our ability to diagnose and treat this troubling and apparently rapidly growing spectrum of disorders. Please get involved with the Interactive Autism Network and tell your families affected by autism about IAN: www.iancommunity.org.

Listener feedback: Two STAT! doctor subscribers provide feedback. One regarding the importance of Neurolgists’ continued use of medications off-label. The other doctor provides his comments regarding the quality level of STAT! productions, and his wish for additional lines of Medical News Podcasts productions.

Next week’s show: Our 6th installment of Ideology for neurology- working toward neurological perfection: Would you choose neurology again today, if you were considering specialties to pursue? And here’s another question: accumulation of which metal in the gray matter is tied to multiple sclerosis? Listen and learn.

Weblinks:

• Interactive Autism Network

• Internet System for Assessing Autistic Children (Dr. Law’s letter describing the ‘ISAAC’ system).