Dr. Fred Volkmar on the mechanisms and treatment of autism

Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. is Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director of the Yale University Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the Chief of Child Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT.
Dr. Volkmar was the primary author of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV autism and pervasive developmental disorders section. Dr. Volkmar's research focus is on mechanisms and treatment of autism and related disorders in individuals of all ages.

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Dr Volkmar is a truly exceptional scholar and pioneer in the field

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WHAT ABOUT ADDRESSING THE ADULTS with autism, especially the aspergers form of autism. Those of us NT's who find ourselves married to these men after the fact have had our lives and that of our children born in these families destroyed form the emotional negelct and disconnect. The married couples with children are falling apart as there is little or no help for hte NT spouse or their children. Can we focus on the adults for a while?