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PARTNERSHIP CALLS
CHE Partnership Call: Tues, July 28, 2009 Precaution's Reach: A Principle in Action
6/23/09: MP3 recording available - A Common Agenda on Health and the Environment 6/15/09: MP3 recording available - Ecological Intelligence: A Conversation with Daniel Goleman 6/4/09: MP3 recording available - CHE Science Cafe Call with Steve Gilbert 5/7/09: MP3 recording available - Metabolic Syndrome: At the Crossroads of the Western Disease Cluster
CHE WORKING GROUP CALLS
CHE Mental Health and the Environment Call:
Tues, July 7, 2009 More information CHE Fertility Call: Mon, July 13, 2009 Know Your ABC's: The Fundamentals of Reproductive Health and the Environment CHE LDDI Quarterly Call: Tues, Sept 15, 2009 More information **** Submit your events and announcements to the CHE website. |
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Rethinking Autism: Towards a Whole Body ParadigmDec 12, 2006Autism, first identified in the 1940s, was initially believed to be an entirely psychological problem; then later, a strongly genetic disorder. Now, driven by suggestive evidence that incidence is increasing and that some children are responding to biomedical treatment, a new paradigm of autism as a set of phenotypes involving environmental modulation or triggering of genetic vulnerability is emerging. Environmental contaminants may play a significant role in some of these hypothesized phenotypes, as do gastrointestinal disorders and other conditions. Harvard neuroscientist and Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., discussed the new paradigm with comments from Lee Grossman, President of the Autism Society of America and the proud parent of an autistic child, and from Michael Lerner, President of Commonweal. This call was moderated by Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director, Institute for Children's Environmental Health, and Coordinator, CHE Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative Working Group. |