Sentences with phrase «core symptoms of autism»

«We don't have a lot of medications for the core symptoms of autism — arguably we have none,» says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

At Caltech, developmental neurobiologist Paul Patterson found he could induce the core symptoms of autism and schizophrenia in mice by giving their mothers the flu during pregnancy, or by arousing their immune systems in utero with an injection of foreign RNA.

«Right now we have no medications treating the core symptoms of autism.

There is no Food and Drug Administration - approved medical treatment for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder, a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition whose hallmarks are deficits in social relatedness, repetitive thoughts and behaviors and, often, intellectual disability.

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

Not exact matches

Problems with communication, specifically non-verbal cognitive ability, are a strong predictor of externalising behaviour problems.3 Children with ASD exhibit more severe internalising and externalising behaviours than non-ASD children, as well as a high prevalence of aggressive behaviour.3 These behavioural challenges can often cause caregivers more distress and mental health problems than the core ASD symptoms.4, 5 Increased child behaviour problems and parental (especially maternal) psychological distress compared with children without autism is established early in life — by the time that children are aged 5 years.6 These co-occurring, behaviour problems are of concern in early childhood because of the importance of these early years for longer term child developmental outcomes.7

However, when we examined the overall estimated probability of meeting «caseness» on the GHQ - 12, neither child core autism symptoms (social affect and restrictive and repetitive behaviours), nor child level of speech, were associated with caregiver mental health difficulties.

As a measure of parenting stress specific to core and co-morbid symptoms of autism, the APSI is unique.