Dr. Nichol's Selected News Articles

United Press International Articles

• Autism tied to flawed cell armor
• Autism tied to neural 'cracks'
• Brain size may point to autism
• Brain studies yield autism clues
• Looking to faces for autism clues
• The biological factor in autism
• The hunt for autism genes
• The many faces of autism
• Scientists study genes in autism
• Seeing faces, autism in new light
• Studies eye autistic kids' kin
• Studies look at heredity, autism

News Articles:

• 'Love Hormone' may emerge as a treatment for autism
• The big art of small talk
• A few tips to master the art of small talk
• A new refridgerator mother? - Mom, what’s in the fridge?
• Are We an Autistic Society?
• Articles by Donna Williams
  She is an autistic person who wrote the books "Nobody Nowhere" and "Somebody Somewhere."

Oxytocin as a Treatment for Autism

• A Whiff of Oxytocin for Autism
• Another Oxytocin Patent
• New research suggests oxytocin's potential for treatment of two core autism symptom domains
• Insight into the Basis of Insight
• Oxytocin Therapy for Autism Gets Closer
• Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Autism
• Phase 2 Trial of Oxytocin for Autism within 12 Mos.

Online Resources:

• Reading the mind in the eyes
  a test on recognizing facial expressions
• The Asperger's Syndrome Test