Sentences with phrase «few autism studies»

Model behavior So far, there are only a few autism studies in which the sex of animals seems to make a difference, but that may be because scientists have only just begun to look.

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Last year, researchers at Cardiff University in Wales uncovered one source of this squeamishness: Although studies of healthy sexuality are few and far between, there are more than 5,000 published studieslinking autism to inappropriate behavior such as stalking, public fondling or sexual obsessions.

«It's enough to make me think about trying it in a few of my autism patients who haven't responded to other interventions,» says Randi Hagerman, a pediatrician who studies neurodevelopmental disorders at the University of California, Davis.

Few studies of autism prevalence have been conducted in low - and middle - income countries.

But the exact causes of the vast majority of autism - related disorders remain a mystery: classic genetic studies, which tie the ailment to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs — deletions, additions or substitutions of one unit in the genetic code), have returned a number of different markers with very few well - replicated candidates.

The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.

According to the study, the researchers» genetic analysis supports previous findings that people carrying autism genes tend to be intelligent, as well as findings about common traits between autism and high IQs — bigger brains that grow faster, better sensory and visual - spatial capabilities, and improved decision - making, to name a few.

While very few studies have examined functional connectivity in young children and toddlers with autism (Dinstein et al., 2011), some have started to use structural measures to examine high - risk infants, including siblings of children with autism.

There have been few studies of the impact of intensive home - based early applied behavior analysis (ABA) intervention for children with autism on family functioning.

The psychosocial adjustment of siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a relatively recent field of study, but results in literature are often inconsistent, and studies specifically focused on samples of siblings of children with high - functioning ASD are very few.