Sentences with phrase «of autism researcher»

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.

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.

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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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Rates of autism were several times greater in some counties than others, which the researchers suggest is due to environmental toxins (PLoS Computational Biology, doi.org/rxd).

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.

«Sharing treatment decisions challenges doctors, parents of young children with autism: Researchers find gaps in knowledge, communication about ASD treatment choices.»

In a 2008 study published in Archives of General Psychiatry, two researchers studying a California Department of Developmental Services database found that the prevalence of autism had actually continued increasing among the young.

«Our study was conducted in a supervised setting, by researchers experienced in working with kids with autism spectrum disorders who understand the needs and requirements of the animals,» Dr. O'Haire said.

Researchers hope that figuring out handedness will help them better understand brain organization and the causes of conditions such as dyslexia, stuttering, autism and schizophrenia.

To close the gap, the researchers are using technology that facilitates intervention early in the child's life and empowers parents to play a very important role: «baby's first and best teacher,» said Ashley Darcy - Mahoney, assistant professor and neonatal nurse practitioner at The George Washington University School of Nursing and director of infant research at its Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.

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.

Although much media attention has focused on how dogs can improve the social skills of children with autism, a University of Missouri researcher recently found that children with autism have stronger social skills when any kind of pet lived in the home.

Among the claims of misuse of funds, Hornig alleges Lipkin paid the salary of a researcher studying CFS / ME with money from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, which was supposed to be dedicated to an autism Autism Research Initiative, which was supposed to be dedicated to an autism autism study.

The ubiquitin finding is «very intriguing,» says Joachim Hallmayer, an autism genetics researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California.

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 researchers found four regions in the genome which dramatically affect the risk of autism or schizophrenia.

The ASF is scarcely a blip on the big screen of autism - research spending: in this, its second full year of operations, it is awarding $ 220,000 in grants to young researchers; last year, it spent $ 180,000.

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

With that concern in mind, some researchers have wondered if the rising rates of autism diagnoses could have anything to do with the...

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.

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

The researchers used «bait» proteins from over two dozen known autism genes, fishing in a pool of human DNA for other proteins that would interact with the baits.

Additionally, when the researchers checked their network against the DNA of patients with nonsyndromic, or «stand - alone,» autism, they found abnormalities involving three of the network genes.

This growing alliance of autistic individuals, their parents and researchers, all of whom have embraced the concept of neurodiversity, proposes that autism be regarded as a valuable part of humanity's genetic legacy and that society needs to accept and adapt to people who think differently.

This prompted the researchers to take a closer look at data from one of the largest studies of autism in the country, containing genome sequences of some 2,700 individuals.

The researchers analyzed the results of diagnostic tests in 61 children with autism being evaluated for GI symptoms, such as abdominal pain or constipation.

Along the way, it tells the real stories of children and adults with autism, their families, and the clinicians and researchers trying to understand their very different minds.

By crunching data from the genomes of hundreds of individuals with various degrees of autism, the researchers identified several functionally related genetic variations that they say are likely to be linked to autism or to the underlying pathology of neuronal development that may cause it.

Researchers at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine have identified signs of autism present in the first months ofAutism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine have identified signs of autism present in the first months ofautism present in the first months of life.

Autistic toddlers tend to have large brains for their age, and researchers have shown a correlation between the degree of excess growth and the severity of autism symptoms.

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.

The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that in the brain MHCI could play an unexpected role in conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, type II diabetes and autism.

The researcher concludes that «there is plenty of work to do in order to attain a genetic diagnosis of the disease; however if genetic basis knowledge goes further, new therapeutic intervention could be fostered and autism will stopped to be only treated by palliative and unspecific strategies.»