Treatment Fads

2. A treatment characterized by an initial burst of popularity supported by enthusiasm rather than empirical evidence.
4. A treatment based on unscientific principles; most of its remedies contain no active ingredients.
6. CELL: An expensive therapy claiming to "repair" brain function, though it lacks scientific evidence and is potentially harmful
7. This expensive oxygen therapy for ASD has no evidence of benefit and can cause side effects.
9. A discredited communication method for ASD where a prompt or "helper" often accidentally guides the user's response.
11. The "____ to the mean" phenomenon occurs when chronic symptoms naturally fluctuate back toward a patient's average.
13. The doctor who developed Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT) based on the premise of reducing hypersensitivity.
15. A dangerous fad treatment for ASD intended to remove heavy metals from the body; it has led to patient deaths.

1. The effect where people change their behavior simply because they know they are participating in a novel experiment.
3. REVIEW: Fad treatments are generally publicized in journals that lack this independent expert check,.
5. The doctor who developed the method of auditory stimulation from which AIT originally evolved.
8. Any effect on a disease attributable to a pill or procedure that lacks specific pharmacodynamic properties.
10. Fad treatments often rely on this type of "evidence" from parents rather than rigorous statistical evaluation.
12. AIT practitioners incorrectly use 5-10 dB threshold variations between these types of frequencies as evidence of "distorted" hearing,.
14. It is considered ____ to make clinical claims that cannot be substantiated.