For Healthcare Professionals:  Clinical Research

Below is a selection of clinical studies related to diet intervention and autism spectrum disorder.

• Change of Diet for Children with Autism Suffering from GI Problems (PDF) View a collection of abstracts about children with autism suffering from gastrointestinal (GI) issues.
  
  
• The Opiate Theory of Autism (PDF)
  View a collection of peer-reviewed articles about dietary opiates.
  
  
• Autism and Gastrointestinal Symptoms
  Horvath K, Perman JA. Curr Gastroenterol Rep. 2002 Jun; 4(3):251-8, View the abstract of this review article which appeared in Current Gastroenterology Reports (Volume 4, Issue 3, pages 251-258; 2002).
  
  
• Gene Could Link Autism, Digestive Problems
  View the abstract of this research study which was published in the March issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (Vol. 123 No. 3 March 2009, pp. 1018-1024).