Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology.

Introduction. Among the hundreds of thousands of disorders that affect Americans, I find that autism is amid the most intriguing. This enigmatic disorder affects between 300,000-400,000 individuals in the U.S. (Autism the Facts, Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen,1999, p.11), and even larger amounts of the population worldwide. Despite the growing numbers of cases of autism, the current knowledge of the disorder remains quite limited. Health care providers, disease specialists, and neurologists have yet to determine the …

…autism chooses it's victims, why some are more severely affected that others, if it can ever be cured. I doubt that the answers to these questions will ever be answered. <Tab/> <Tab/> <Tab/><Tab/> <Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>