Environmental Enrichment May Help Treat Autism - and Help Us All
From: Scientific American - 08/26/2014
By: Michael Leon

Evidence for a surprisingly simple therapy

This is a partial list of the disorders whose symptoms can be greatly
reduced, or even completely reversed, with what is known as "environmental
enrichment", a daily exposure to a wide variety of sensory stimulation: 

 1. Autism
 2. Stroke
 3. Seizures
 4. Brain damage
 5. Neuronal death during aging
 6. ADHD
 7. Prenatal alcohol syndrome
 8. Lead exposure
 9. Multiple sclerosis
10. Addiction
11. Schizophrenia
12. Memory loss
13. Huntington's disease
14. Parkinson's disease
15. Alzheimer's disease
16. Down syndrome
17. Depression

Read the entire article at:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-enrichment-may-help-treat-autism-and-help-us-all/

Links:
Mendability
http://www.mendability.com/

You Only Live Once: Leya Aronoff (video 4:52)
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/You-Only-Live-Once-Leya-Aronoff

Environmental enrichment as an effective treatment for autism: A randomized
  controlled trial.  
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bne/127/4/487/