Dr. John Constantino featured on News channel 4 to highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.
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Life lessons: Doctor Mini Mental Health (Links to an external site)
Mini Tandon, MD is working to destigmatize mental health issues by bringing them front and center.
Constantino, Glowinski and Luby named Best Doctor (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to John Constantino, MD, Anne Glowinski, MD and Joan Luby, MD, for making the Best Doctors List in America for 2016.
Doctors say pregnant and postpartum women should be screened for depression (Links to an external site)
Dr. Cynthia Rogers explains mental health professionals’ hope that widespread screening will reduce the stigma of mental illness, and even normalize mental health questioning of pregnant women.
Researchers assess how autism traits could be passed genetically (Links to an external site)
A study led by Natasha Marrus, MD, recruits women who had at least one child with autism, and who now have grandchildren, to see how risk for the disorder may be passed through the generations.
Preparing teenagers for college (Links to an external site)
Paul Glaser, MD, PhD, recommends that parents ask their college-bound children how they feel about the approaching changes in their lives.
New CDC funding will expand knowledge about children with autism spectrum disorder.
New CDC Funding Will Expand Knowledge about Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) will be directed by Dr. Rob Fitzgerald. The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) is one of the largest studies in the United States designed to identify and better understand genetic and environmental risk factors for ASD […]
Advice for parents on teaching kids to work as a team (Links to an external site)
Dehra Harris explains how parents can help their children shift perspectives to better understand teammates and losing.
Advocating that parents teach their daughters to be brave rather than perfect (Links to an external site)
Dehra Glueck says the main difference is that brave daughters are raised to take risks rather than trying to be perfect. She also said it is important to start a conversation with your daughter about why perfect doesn’t work – mostly because if you are trying to be perfect you will never be at your learning […]
The crisis within: How toxic stress and trauma endanger our children (Links to an external site)
Joan Luby and Cynthia Rogers share their research on brain development, depression and poverty in a special report examining toxic stress in St. Louis youth.
Addressing racial disparity in autism treatment (Links to an external site)
Dr. John N. Constantino, MD, shares his perspective in this op-ed.
Weak brain connections may link premature birth and later disorders (Links to an external site)
A study led by Cynthia Rogers comparing MRI scans of the brains of 58 full-term babies with those of 76 babies born at least 10 weeks early found that preterm infants indeed have abnormal structural brain connections.
Why girls are diagnosed with autism less often than boys? (Links to an external site)
Dr. Natasha Marrus discusses the latest developments in the field of autism research
How can parents talk to their kids about Ferguson? (Links to an external site)
Young children may be frightened by the images they see on the news, Cynthia Rogers, MD, has observed. It’s important to let them share these feelings, and also to assure them that they are safe.