Front Matter

Index 297

l
lactose tolerance 3, 4
LDH 243, 245
LDH A 244
LDH B 244
lead 170, 177t
leaky gut syndrome 9
leukemia 15
Life 60
Lincoln, Abraham 19
lindane 174t
linuron 174t
locus coeruleus (LC) 206
long‐distance cortical “under‐
connectivity” theory 133–4
Lou Gehrig’s disease 84
lupus 200
lymphoma 15

m
malaria 2–3
malathion 174t
mancozeb 174t
maneb 174t
manganese 170
maternal immune system
238–40
maternal twins see monozygotic
twins
measles 41, 279
measles–mumps–rubella (MMR)
vaccine 262, 271
mechanistic target of rapamycin
(mTOR) signaling pathway 72
media and public perceptions of
autism 60
medial preoptic area (MPOA) 202
mercury 42, 177t, 270–1
in food 271
in immunization schedule 52
in vaccines 4–5, 274
merthiolate see thimerosal
methomyl 174t

methoxychlor 174t

methylmercury 170, 270

metribuzin 174t

mirex 175t

Mohawk Homeobox (MKX) 151

mono‐2‐ethyhexyl phthalate 212

monochorionic monoamniotic

twins 148f

monoethyl phthalate (MEP) 192, 193

monosodium glutamate (MSG) 269

monozygotic twins, discordant

ASD discordance 146–9

disease discordance 152

environment and 149–51

types 146–7

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 266

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 19

Mullis, Dr Kary B. 26

multiple sclerosis (MS) 200, 239, 239f

mump vaccine 239

mumps virus 238

muscular dystrophy 169

musk ambrette 14, 131, 171

musk ketone 4, 13, 37, 76, 100, 131,

170, 178, 186, 188, 189, 191

musk xylene 188, 189, 191

mutation rate in human genome 74

mutations of coding genes that 30

myocarditis 249

n

Influenza Vaccine and Narcolepsy

250–2, 267

nasal passages 86, 87f

National Society for Autistic

Children 58

Nazism 53–4

neo‐antigens 240

nested lineage trees 34

neural plate folding 17

neural tube defect 66

neuritogenesis 244

neuroantigens 243–5