Sentences with phrase «many autism researchers»

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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».

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

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.

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.

Pity the poor autism researcher.

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

«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.

The promise and the pitfalls of autism research: an introductory note for new autism researchers.

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.

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

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

As a matter of fact, one of my favorite autism researchers, Paul Whiteley, just posted, Gut dysbiosis in treated coeliac disease: time for a probiotic or worse?

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

Researchers aren't sure what causes autism, although they suspect environmental risks or triggers.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

Researchers watched live brain formation and concluded that genetic aberrations can impede the cluster formation and cause diseases such as autism.

Carol Potter, a senior researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University is running the UK's first National Survey of Fathers of Children with Autism (children aged 19 or under) to find out more about their vital parenting role.

By Gita Gupta In this post, I summarize a study from a group of well - known researchers which reveals new insights on gastrointestinal (GI) issues in autism.

Researchers claim that going into pregnancy at an unhealthy weight as well as gaining too much weight during pregnancy can both be linked to autism.

Researchers now believe you can pick up signs of autism in a baby just under 4 months of age.

Recently, researchers from Harvard and Mt Sinai found that both environmental chemicals and environmental stress can disrupt the development of a fetus» brain and negatively impact the baby's long - term health, even increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders.

The researchers have also been testing children ages 4 to 8, some with autism spectrum disorder, speech delays and hyperactivity.

Researchers are also beginning to understand the link between prenatal Vitamin D levels and autism in children.

The researchers observed higher levels of lead in children with autism throughout development, with the greatest disparity observed during the period following birth.

The researchers - Dr Katie Maras, University of Bath, and Dr Laura Crane, City University London - are calling for better training of police and criminal justice professionals as, at present in the UK, these groups currently have no standard compulsory training about autism.

But over the past decade, researchers have identified hundreds of gene variations that seem to affect brain development in ways that increase the risk of autism.

Researchers have assumed that mothers are more likely to pass on autism - promoting gene variants.

And a clinical trial to see whether cord blood transplants improve symptoms of children with autism spectrum disorder should wrap up in the summer of 2018, says pediatric researcher and clinician Joanne Kurtzberg of Duke University, who helped establish a not - for - profit umbilical cord bank in North Carolina.

A few years ago, the researchers surveyed a random sampling of parents about their attitudes toward vaccines and then showed the participants one of four kinds of information: written material from the CDC explaining the lack of evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism; written material about the dangers of the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; images of children who have the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; or a dramatic narrative about an infant who almost died of measles.

Their report, published May 10 in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that among more than a dozen different lines of mice developed around the world to mirror autism caused by mutations to the SHANK3 gene, Duke researchers are the first to create a mouse in which that gene has been completely eliminated.

11 — 12 Researchers agree that genetic factors are a predominant cause of autism.

Neither researcher had any knowledge of the other's work, and yet by an uncanny coincidence each gave the syndrome the same name: autism, which derives from the Greek word autos, meaning «self.»

Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.

Osaka University researchers show in a multi-institute collaboration that a single amino acid substitution in the protein CX3CR1 may act as predictor for schizophrenia and autism

The researchers identified for the first time master genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia and other disorders.

The Columbia University researcher describes his quest for HIV in San Francisco and SARS in China, the immune cascades that may cause autism, and the infectious roots of psychiatric disease.

Working with this hypothesis, the researchers conducted a statistical analysis of the CX3CR1 gene in over 7000 schizophrenia and autism patients and healthy subjects, finding one mutant candidate, a single amino acid switch from alanine to threonine, as a candidate marker for prediction.

Since then, researchers have wondered whether the hormone could have similar «pro-social» effects in people with autism, who often struggle to understand and respond to social cues.

A new multi-institutional study by Japanese researchers shows a potential rare gene mutation that could act as a predictor for two neurodevelopmental disorders, schizophrenia and autism.

The researchers found that, compared to the typically developing children, the children with autism had higher skin conductance levels when reading silently, reading aloud, and in the group toy session.