Sentences with phrase «autism researchers»

«The great benefit of the video and software is for general practitioners who do not have the trained eye to look for subtle early warning signs of autism,» said Amy Esler, an assistant professor of pediatrics and autism researcher at the University of Minnesota, who participated in some of the trials highlighted in the paper.

Jiang said autism researchers worldwide could use the mouse model to study ways to compensate for the gene and improve symptoms in people with autism spectrum disorders and Phelan - McDermid Syndrome, a more profound developmental condition caused by mutations to SHANK3 and other genes in chromosome 22.

That is in line with a unified genetic theory of autism proposed by Wigler, who performed a rigorous statistical analysis of a large data set cobbled together by the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, a group of autism researchers who share data collected from families with autistic children.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the project brings together top autism researchers from around the country to explore different facets of the gender bias in autism, including genetics, brain imaging, and behavioral development — a significant breakthrough for autistic girls and the field of autism research.

Just about 70 miles north of Foss - Feig's office in New York City is the lab of autism researcher James McPartland, at the Yale Child Study Center.

Health asked leading autism researchers to help us figure it out.

Autism researcher Simon Baron - Cohen wonders if the media needs the same kind of tough regulation that scientists face

The finding is novel, says autism researcher Peter Mundy at the University of California, Davis, because previous studies of joint attention have not distinguished between initiating and responding.

Huge differences in rates of diagnosis between regions — one in 45 children in New Jersey, compared with one in 175 in Alabama, for example — need to be accounted for before the new data can be properly interpreted, says veteran autism researcher Catherine Lord, a psychologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.

Whereas many autism researchers focus on the end of the pathway — the brain — Orefice and colleagues wondered about the first leg of the trip.

Pity the poor autism researcher.

Wigler's theory gave autism researchers a new place to look for answers, and other researchers found that the genomes of autistic children did turn out to have de novo CNVs — large stretches of their genetic code had been deleted or duplicated.

The call for still more data is echoed by autism researchers everywhere.

Autism researchers from UCLA and Stanford will explore, among other things, forebrain spheroids, which contain the major cell classes of the developing forebrain.

«We've found that while boys and girls with autism are facing similar problems in school and at home, some of their underlying brain functions are different,» said Kevin Pelphrey, a leading autism researcher and director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute at George Washington University.

He served as her postdoctoral mentor and, like Foss - Feig, says autism researchers can learn a lot by studying people with psychosis.

Julia's gender is thought to be particularly significant, since some autism researchers believe the condition is underdiagnosed in girls.

If the findings pan out, studying neuronal connections in synesthesia could be a boon to autism researchers.

At a forum on brain diseases in Frankfurt, Germany, Thomas Bourgeron, an autism researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, voiced his confusion.

Dr. Jeremy Veenstra - VanderWeele, MD, an autism researcher who was not involved in this study, noted, «This study is a good example of how existing data can be mined for new insights.

While at Haskins, Ramsay met Ami Klin, then an autism researcher at neighboring Yale University.

The autism researcher explains why labelling people «evil» is unhelpful — and argues for a more objective measure of people's capacity for cruelty

Robyn Young, an autism researcher at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, says some calendar savants study perpetual calendars (there are only 14 different calendar configurations; perpetual calendars cross-reference them to years).

Turning the tide of early deaths linked to autism must be a priority, says James Cusack, a campaigning researcher, who has autism himself

said Grace Baranek, PhD, lead author of the study and an autism researcher with the Program for Early Autism, Research, Leadership and Service (PEARLS) in the Department of Allied Health Sciences at the UNC School of Medicine.

Meanwhile, neurobiologist Ricardo Dolmetsch, an autism researcher at Stanford University in California, says, «The consensus in the autism research community, as well as in the stem - cell community, is that there is no scientifically valid reason for using stem cells to treat autism spectrum disorders».

Increasingly, autism researchers are predicting that personalized, more effective treatments will come from understanding these common brain pathways — and how different gene variations alter them.

Extremely few human cases of the disorder are caused by mutated genes for neuroligin and related proteins, notes Edwin Cook, an autism researcher at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.

«Even though GI symptoms are common in early childhood, physicians should be mindful that children with ASD may be experiencing more GI difficulties in the first three years of life,» autism researchers from Columbia University, wrote in the March 25 issue of the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

Autism researchers have been intrigued by the fact that a PST deficiency can cause the improper metabolism of some neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline.)

Autism researchers and advocates alike are sounding the alarm as President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. secretary of education — billionaire Betsy DeVos — heads to the Senate floor for confirmation.