Sentences with phrase «autism research»

Current perspectives in autism research reside on their own spectrum.

The majority of autism research focuses on the individual with the diagnosis, previous research however has found unfavorable effects that raising a child with ASD can have on parents.

The changes reflect recent autism research, he says, but he is concerned that the change was proposed without adequately considering its social ramifications.

That met with little success, but autism research gained more traction when the «genome era» of the early 2000s provided new tools to explore the body's library of DNA.

For these reasons, we see the visual system as a vital avenue of autism research.

And if the doctor doesn't perceive a treatable language delay, he won't see a need to evaluate it further, says David Mandell, the associate director of the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

She provides nutritionist training through her private practice and through programs provided by Autism Research Institute throughout the year.

Professor Cheryl Dissanayake, director of the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) at La Trobe University, says the centre's study of 15,000 children with ASD found the average age of diagnosis in children under seven is taking place at just over four years of age.

«They have identified key molecules that facilitate cortical folding,» says neuroscientist Louis Reichardt, director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative in New York City, who heard the talk.

The results, published July 31 in eNeuro, suggest that the social environment influences behavior in complex and important ways, says neuroscientist Alice Luo Clayton of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative in New York City.

Jon Spiers, CEO of Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity who provided initial funding for the study, said, «Parents often sense their child is developing differently very early on, yet getting a diagnosis of autism can take years.

«When it comes to animals, we have an advantage because you can be more invasive and access the brain easier,» said Suma Jacob, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the University's Autism Research Program.

Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity and Mehta Bell Projects, are pleased to announce «An Infinitely Beautiful Mind», a charity art sale and exhibition which will present the works of artists ranging from modern masters, contemporary and emerging talents through to outsider art, whose work share the desire to represent the human experience through highly detailed and laborious artistic techniques.

The ASF is still dwarfed by the size and reach of other organizations supporting autism research.

Dr. Laugeson is the Director of The Help Group — UCLA Autism Research Alliance, which is a collaborative research initiative between The Help Group and the UCLA Semel Institute, dedicated to developing and expanding applied clinical research in the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

The first donation ended up in the ballpark of $ 750,000 and founded the Kilee Patchell - Evans Autism Research Group at the university.

This work was done in collaboration with The Help Group - UCLA Autism Research Alliance and Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, and with partial support from the SEARCH Family Autism Center at UC Riverside and the UCR Vice Chancellor for Research.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

At a committee meeting she was due to attend in Washington, D.C., the next day, she and others were set to vote on a plan that would direct much of the United States» spending on autism research for the next year.

Currently, more than 90 investigators at 40 academic and medical institutions are using the MSSNG database to advance autism research around the world.

The study's findings, published online in the journal Autism Research, revealed that after 18 months of treatment, adults with autism who received CET had significant increases in neurocognitive function, particularly in attention and their ability to process information quickly.

«In light of these and other deeply worrying findings, we are urging more people to join our new autism research network, Discover, that will link the local autistic community with top UK research centres such as Coventry University.

The University Of Massachusetts Medical School and the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center will handle that aspect of the research.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award (752-2004-0434 to C.G.P.); Organization for Autism Research Grant (to C.G.P.); Society of the Psychological Study of Social Issues Grants - in - Aid (to C.G.P.); a VCU Graduate School Graduate Student Research Grant (to C.G.P.).

She has written for The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site covering autism research.

Smith benched 225 pounds 35 times, which earned more than $ 3,000 for the organization that sponsors autism research.

On a brisk and bright morning, thousands of families and supporters for autism research participated in today's walk at Orchard Beach for Autism Speaks, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders, to funding research into the causes, -LSB-...]

This article was reprinted with permission from Spectrum, the home of autism research news and analysis.

The two major non-governmental players in US autism research, the Simons Foundation in New York and Autism Speaks, last year spent $ 54 million and $ 21 million, respectively (see «All change for autism»).

You are encouraging that person to pursue autism research as opposed to research in some other disease.»

The results of those studies may nudge autism research forward in unexpected ways.

Their study wasn't granular enough to analyze autism research, but the most prominent discrepancy it found was in neuroscience, in which studies using only males outnumbered those with only females by more than a factor of five.

A new Autism Research study has revealed that the ERN is related to social anxiety symptoms — specifically performance fears — in youth with ASD.

«Interestingly, the frequency of de novo, or new, CNVs identified in these patients with cerebral palsy is even more significant than some of the major CNV autism research from the last 10 years.

The Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge initiative is collecting data from 50,000 people with autism and their families, and by late 2017, more than 20 research centers in the United States will have access to the data.

CSH Seahawks Varsity football team present Professor Michael Ronemus with a check for $ 5,000 toward autism research...

C.A.R.E. Foundation: California Autism Research and Evaluation Foundation CARE Grant Program is for helping families with medication, autism diagnosis / evaluation, therapy session (including speech, OT and ABA,) autism summer camps, autism service dogs, and anything related to improving the lives of children affected by autism.

Their Research Strategy is designed to ensure a more coherent approach to the investment of scarce resources in UK autism research

The majority of autism research focuses on the individual with the diagnosis, previous research however has found unfavorable effects that raising a child with ASD can

Paris Autism Research International Sibpair Study

This research was supported by a scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Initiative in Health Research (STIHR): Autism Research Training Program to the first author and a Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar Award to the second author.

Go to Autism Research Institute to find a doctor.

Ingrid Wickelgren is managing editor of Spectrum News, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.

Teamsters Local 25 president Sean O'Brien recently presented more than $ 300,000 to local non-profits, including a $ 50,000 donation to McLean Hospital which will be used to continue groundbreaking autism research and support the McLean - Franciscan...

Autistica, a leading autism research charity, has been selected by Deutsche Bank (Frieze London's main sponsor) as its 2016 - 17 Charity of the Year.