For Providers

With the rate of autism increasing at an alarming rate, ARI encourages all interested medical professionals to learn about treatments and offer them to families. Autistic children and their families need your help. While ARI cannot endorse specific practitioners, we emphatically do endorse the Defeat Autism Now! approach.

To add your name to the list of clinicians using a Defeat Autism Now! approach, you must attend at least one Defeat Autism Now! Conference and/or practitioners' seminar. CEU/CME are available to nurses and physicians who complete the seminar. Course topics include:

Discussions of contemporary biomedical foundations ASD.
Descriptions of the biomedical treatment for ASD.
Discussions of the compiling a pertinent history, physical examination and maintaining an optimal office environment for treating ASD
Discussions of metabolic abnormalities in ASD.

Once you have successfully completed a seminar, you can request to add your name to the list of clinicians using the Defeat Autism Now! approach.

Brain Research

Autism and the Limbic System
Interview with Professor Jaak Panksepp

Clinical Research

Toxic Metals and Essential Minerals in the Hair of Children with Autism and their Mothers
Heavy Metal Exposures, Developmental Milestones, and Physical Symptoms in Children with Autism
The Cerebellum and Autism
Effects of Mercury on Methionine Synthase: Implications for Disordered Methylation in Autism
B6 and Sulfation
Impaired transsulfuration and oxidative stress in autistic children: Improvement with targeted nutritional intervention
Binding of Infectious Agents, Toxic Chemicals, and Dietary Peptides to Tissue Enzymes and Lymphocyte Receptors and Consequent Immune Response in Autism
Studies of High Dosage Vitamin B6 (and often with Magnesium) in Autistic Children and Adults

Synchronizing Neuronal Networks: How Improved Methylation Helps Autism
Richard Deth, PhD (Long Beach 2005)
Methionine Metabolism in Autistic Children: The individuals within the Mean
Jill James, PhD (Boston 2005)
Methionine Metabolism in Autistic Children: The individuals Within the Mean
Sidney M. Baker, MD (Boston 2005)
Synchronizing Neuronal Networks: How Improved Methylation Helps Autism
Richard Deth, PhD (Boston 2005)
Defeat Autism Now! Made Simple (Biochemistry 101) Lauren Underwood, PhD (Boston 2005)
Autism From A Cellular Perspective
Elizabeth Mumper, MD (Boston 2005)
Defeat Autism Now! Made Simple (Biochemistry 101) -- Recommended talk from 2005 Boston Defeat Autism Now! Conference
Lauren Underwood, PhD (Long Beach 2005)
Introductory Remarks
Jon Pangborn, PhD (DC 2006)

Educational Programs

See Families Living with Autism, Educational Therapies

Autism Overview Presentation prepared by Jim Adams, Ph.D.

Patient History

Dr. Baker's Questionnaire for Children with Autism and Related Developmental and/or Attention Problems, a detailed Medical History Questionnaire to give to the pediatrician for your autistic, PDD, or ADD/ADHD child. Compiled and refined by Sid Baker, M.D. to provide maximum useful information to the child's doctor. (Keep a completed record for your own files.)