Autistic Children on the Rise

A group of Norwegian researchers from the Haukenland University Hospital (Bergen) deny the existence of an “autism epidemic”.

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(MADRID) - An autistic child will remain autistic for the rest of his or her life. Autism is a neural disorder whose origin is still unknown.

Director and scientist of the Biomedical Research Network Centre of Mental Health (Cibersam, Spain) affirms that autistic children suffer numerous alterations that affect their infant development.

These effects are due to the neural disruption of the child from the very start.

Today, autism presents itself in one out of 250 children. In the 1970s, five children out of 10,000 were diagnosed as autistic. This means that there has been a 40 percent increase during the last 35 years.

However, not all experts agree on the causes of this disorder. A group of Norwegian researchers from the Haukenland University Hospital (Bergen) deny the existence of an “autism epidemic”. www.cda.org/popup/amalgam_spanish 

Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer Roselló, a prestigious Spanish advertising character, presents a fascinating personal and professional career fully devoted to the world of communication in its varied dimensions. He earned a PhD in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, BA in Advertising from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Master in Marketing from the School of Marketing Studies in Madrid.

He has been Associate Professor of Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Navarra and a contributor to the Madrid daily ABC. He also spent several years teaching, both in the Official School of Advertising as the School of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1985 he was awarded the Gold Master, granted by the Senior Management Forum and AMPE Prize 1996 to the "long and brilliant career advertising."

You can write to Clemente at this address: clementeferrer3@gmail.com

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