today: Autism: New Findings (Radio/online broadcast, Wed morning, 9AM PST)

[Guest guest]

fwd:

San Francisco public radio interviewer Krasney is a superb radio

journalist (and professor); he'll have lead authors of the new autism

study on his show Weds - it is also broadcast online. There is usually

opportunity for Q & A and email commentary as well.

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201107060900

Autism: New Findings

Wed, Jul 6, 2011 -- 9:00 AM PST

A just-released study of twins by researchers at UCSF and Stanford

suggests that environmental conditions may be at least as relevant as

genes in causing autism. We speak with the lead authors about how these

findings may challenge conventional wisdom about the origins of autism.

*Host: * Krasny

*Guests:*

* Joachim Hallmayer, associate professor of psychiatry and

behavioral sciences at Stanford University and lead author on the

autism paper

* Neil Risch, director of the Institute for Human Genetics and

professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UCSF Institute

for Human Genetics and senior author of the autism study