TY - BOOK AU - Chauhan, Abha AU - Chauhan, Ved AU - Brown, Ted TI - Autism: oxidative stress, inflammation, and immune abnormalities SN - 1420068814 PY - 2010/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - AUTISTIC DISORDER N2 - In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an autism alarm, estimating that one in 150 children may be affected by autism spectrum disorder. Autism has been treated mainly with technical approaches: principally applied behavior analysis and psychopharmacology. The findings in this book implicate oxidative stress as a common feature in autism, and support the claim that oxidative stress and intracellular redox imbalance can be induced or triggered in autism by exposure to certain environmental agents. Such findings could point the way to new treatment approaches in autism ER -