University of Montreal researchers J.E. Lugo, R. Doti, and Jocely Flaubert, and Walter Wittich of McGill University have been conducting research into the five senses. What they set out to understand is if our five senses had the ability to work with one another, and if an overlap in those senses occurred.

On Monday June 23rd the University of Louisville announced plans to create an autism center that will be housed at their downtown Louisville medical campus. Researchers there are actively working on projects that are aimes at treating, and ultimately curing developmental disorders.

In a study recently conducted by the University of North Carolina on Swedish families, researchers interpreted that having a schizophrenic parent or a mother with psychiatric problems likely doubles a child's risk of being autistic. Several families, consisting of over 1,200 children, all with some relation to autism and all born between 1977 and 2003 were part of the study. They were compared against families of nearly 31,000 children, none of which had autism.

More on the Poling family at the center of the Vaccine/CDC case.

A seminar recently held in SM Mall of Asia hosted guest speakers, and addressed different autism sectors and families of children affected by ASD.