«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.
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leading autism researchers to help us figure it out.
Not exact matches
The
researchers observed higher levels of
lead in children with
autism throughout development, with the greatest disparity observed during the period following birth.
A hardening of antivaccine attitudes, mixed with the despair experienced by families living under the strain of
autism, has heightened the debate — sometimes
leading to blowback against scientific
researchers.
Parents who have a child with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are about one third less likely to have more children than families without an affected child, according to a study
led by a UC San Francisco
researcher.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered a mechanism that guides the exquisite wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain — gaining unprecedented insight into the faulty circuits that may
lead to brain disorders ranging from
autism to mental retardation.
«State laws requiring
autism coverage by private insurers led to increases in autism care: Autism mandates followed by large jump in spending by health plans on care for children with autism, say researchers.&
autism coverage by private insurers
led to increases in
autism care: Autism mandates followed by large jump in spending by health plans on care for children with autism, say researchers.&
autism care:
Autism mandates followed by large jump in spending by health plans on care for children with autism, say researchers.&
Autism mandates followed by large jump in spending by health plans on care for children with
autism, say researchers.&
autism, say
researchers.»
The new study,
led by
researchers from the Center for
Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National Health System, was published in the Journal of
Autism and Developmental Disorders.
While the
researchers found that the omega - 3 fatty acids did not
lead to a statistically significant reduction in hyperactivity, they concluded the online trial was a promising technique for evaluating treatments for
autism.
The findings bolster an emerging link between the immune system and conditions such as
autism, says
lead researcher Jonathan Kipnis, professor of neuroscience at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Researchers will also need to start drilling deeper to study individual copy number variations and disrupted genes to understand how they might
lead to
autism, she notes.
«We can not consider
autism as rare a condition as people previously thought,» says
lead researcher Wei Bao, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa.
«The findings may help
researchers evaluate the effects of different
autism therapies,» said Kaustubh Supekar, PhD, a research associate and the other
lead author of the study.
Lead author John Lewis, a
researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the Ludmer Centre for Bioinformatics and Mental Health, found network inefficiencies had already been established in six - month - old infants who went on to be diagnosed with
autism.
«Diminished motor skills appear to be an almost universal property of children with
autism,» says Professor Michael Wigler, one of three
researchers including Ivan Iossifov from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the New York Genome Center, and Andreas Buja, a statistician from The University of Pennsylvania, who
led the team.
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).
Recent research discoveries in the development of brain disorders could pave the way to new therapies for treating seizures, and even some children with
autism, says a
leading oncologist and
researcher at the University of Alberta.
However,
researchers believe inhalation is likely a major exposure route for people living near heavily treated fields, said Janie Shelton, an epidemiologist who
led a study linking chlorpyrifos to
autism in babies born to moms near treated fields in farm - heavy Northern California last year.
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.
A new study
led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving
researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability and is the most common genetic cause of
autism spectrum disorder.
On January 9, a team,
led by
researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Children's Hospital Boston, announced that it had found copy number variations — deletions of duplications of segments of genetic code that alter the number of copies of a gene a person carries — in 12 of 1,400
autism sufferers it was studying.
The so - called trust hormone, oxytocin, may not improve the symptoms of children with
autism, a large study
led by
researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found.
The
researchers sought to explore the link between maternal infection and risk for
autism, focusing on five pathogens known collectively as ToRCH agents — Toxoplasma gondii, rubella virus, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex viruses type 1 and 2 — to which exposure during pregnancy can
lead to miscarriage and birth defects.
A team
led by
researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) this week publishes in PNAS a new analysis of data on the genetics of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Researchers led by Eric Courchesne are the first to identify a neurobiological early warning sign of
autism, detectable during a child's first year of life.
Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team
led by
researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain
autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.
Sep. 4, 2014 — Vanderbilt University
researchers have received multi-year grants from two private foundations to investigate key signaling proteins that could
lead to novel treatments for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and dystonia, a movement disorder.
A team
led by
researchers at Western University have identified a previously unidentified genetic mutation that
leads to intellectual disability and
autism spectrum disorder, providing answers to a group of...
Learning more about how neurons in the amygdala change during adolescence might
lead to new treatments for
autism and other brain disorders, according to the
researchers.