The news that the UW Autism Center is getting a new director, Wendy Stone--who wrote the book on autism (the one titled Does My Child Have Autism?)--provoked just two comments on the Seattle Times story, one of which says, "So many of their good providers have already left and joined the Seattle Children's Autism Center." We didn't know Children's had an autism center. (Actually, neither does Children's--if you do a search for "autism center" at the Children's site, they reference the UW Autism Center.) So what gives? Anyone know if there's really that much of a difference? more ›

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Dawdy over at Seattle's mental health blog Furious Seasons has been critical of Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman pretty much since he started his site, labeling him the leader of the "Harvard bipolar kid mafia." But even he didn't know Biederman was strong-arming pharmaceutical companies for dollars in exchange for moving "forward the commercial goals of J&J" (Johnson & Johnson being the makers of Risperdal, which Biederman was touting for use with children and adolescents). This comes on the heels of NPR yanking the Infinite Mind show after host Fred Goodwin was revealed to have accepted pharmaceutical dollars without mentioning his conflict of interest. More, no doubt, to come. more ›

"tiggers gotta bounce!" by Seattle rainscreen
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