Sentences with phrase «at risk of an autism»
This device, used once a month for an entire day, records babies at risk of autism.
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Malaspina used the Israeli group to look first at the risk of schizophrenia in children of older fathers — and then at the risk of autism.
«Early warning sign for babies at risk of autism: Early joint attention predicts later autism symptoms.»
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Is it any wonder that preterm infants are at 5x greater risk for autism, syndromal evidence of chronic brain inflammation?
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Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.
Autism risk mutations inactivate this gene and, in the absence of their own ability to produce carnitine and without adequate outside supplementation, neural stem cells become less efficient at self - renewal.
«Here we have indications, at least for some types of autism risk, that a dietary carnitine prevention method might be effective,» Xie said.
But babies at risk of developing autism babble later than the average 6 to 9 months.
«While it was the same rate as people with other types of disabilities who used the program, the wages, hours worked and range of job types for people with autism were low — placing them at risk for poverty.»
Dravet patients usually develop moderate to severe cognitive delays and some features of autism, and are at increased risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy).
«Adults with autism at higher risk of sexual victimization, study shows.»
Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
People who show characteristics of autism are more at risk of attempting suicide, according to a Coventry University study whose results are being presented to a United States federal advisory committee tomorrow.
«People with autism at greater risk of attempting suicide.»
However, this is the first study to suggest those who have not been diagnosed with autism but had certain traits typical of autistic people were also more at risk of attempting suicide.
«Preemies at high risk of autism don't show typical signs of disorder in early infancy.»
The study included 966 mother - child pairs from the Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study, a population - based case - control study based at the University of California at Davis» MIND Institute.
The earliest autism intervention study in the world that uses video to provide feedback to parents of babies at family risk of autism, has indicated a reduction in the severity of emerging signs of autism.
«If this intervention continues to show improvements in such larger studies, then the method would have real potential use for families at the point of early concern, or if their child is genetically at risk of developing autism.»
«Parent - mediated therapy may help babies at risk of developing autism.»
In the new study, perinatal epidemiologist Anick Bérard, at the University of Montreal in Canada, and colleagues used data collected on 145,456 infants born in Quebec between January 1998 and December 2009 to calculate the risk of autism among babies whose mothers had used one or more antidepressants while pregnant.
The team, led by Dr. Thomas W. Frazier, Ph.D. of Cleveland Clinic, hypothesized that more time spent looking at social targets and less time spent looking at non-social targets could be combined into a single «Autism Risk Index» to identify ASD cases.
The research comes from the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for autism.
Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.
Her daughter Natalie was considered at an increased risk, following the diagnosis of a sibling, an older brother, with autism.
A new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers finds that a collection of simple strategies used by parents can lead to significant improvements in one - year - olds at risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
«Children whose mothers have lupus might be at increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»
According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Diego, children born to mothers with lupus may be at twice the risk of autism spectrum disorders than those born to mothers without the disease.
«Brain anatomy differs in people with 22q genetic risk for schizophrenia, autism: Deletions or duplications of DNA along 22nd chromosome hint at biological underpinnings of these disorders.»
In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.
Kliman thinks that the research could lead to routine analyses of placenta from at - risk newborns, particularly those with an older brother or sister with autism.
«Autism spectrum disorders are lifelong conditions for which there is no cure and limited treatment options, so there is an urgent need to identify any risk factors that we could mitigate, such as pollution,» said lead author Evelyn Talbott, Dr.P.H., professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health.
Children who were at risk for autism (both those who did and did not later develop symptoms of autism) had lower levels of anticipatory smiles than children who were not at risk for ASD.
Researchers from University of California, Los Angeles, USA, investigated the risk of autism in males and females in over 1,000 families, and the rate at which autism re-occurred in siblings.4
Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
For example, at least two of the autism - associated gene changes described in the paper were associated with increased risk for seizures.
«These results indicate that the higher autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.
Rao and her team hope that pinpointing the importance of this trafficking mechanism in autism spectrum disorders may lead to the development of new drugs for autism that alter endosomal pH. As the use of genomic data becomes increasingly commonplace in the future, the step-wise strategy devised by her team can be used to screen gene variants and identify at - risk patients, she says.
Procreating late in life may sound risky; in fact, there is evidence that babies conceived by older couples are at higher risk of autism, schizophrenia, and Down syndrome.
Scientists also hope to gain crucial insights into autism's risk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of develoautism's risk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of developmrisk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of develoAutism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of developmRisk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of development.
In work not peer reviewed but presented at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research a group of scientists have reported a possible link between high levels of folate during pregnancy and a child's risk of aAutism Research a group of scientists have reported a possible link between high levels of folate during pregnancy and a child's risk of autismautism.
For example a next step is to scan premature babies and see how their myelin development differs from babies born full term; and how connections in the brains of babies who are at greater risk for developing autism differ from others.»
«The idea is that during evolution these variants that have positive effects on cognitive function were selected, but at a cost — in this case an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»
«If the increased risk of autism really is associated with increased levels of vitamins then the crucial thing surely is the concentration in the baby at birth?
Researchers at four study sites nationwide used a type of MRI scan to look at brain development in the younger siblings of autistic children, who are known to be at higher risk for autism themselves.
The study found that children whose mothers developed gestational diabetes by the 26th week of pregnancy were at increased risk of developing autism later in life, highlighting the importance of early prenatal care.
In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.
Researchers at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities tracking age - related issues of autism identified an increased risk of Parkinson's disease in this high - impact paper.
«Kids conceived through ICSI or in vitro fertilization [IVF] can have low birth weight and higher chance of heart and respiratory issues, and may be at a higher risk for autism or attention deficit hyperactivity,» Samadi added.