Sentences with phrase «of leading autism»

Nourishing Hope is led by one of the leading autism nutrition professionals in the nation, Julie Matthews.

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Finally, don't put this issue down without reading «Making It Work,» Jeff Chu's moving profile of five businesses leading the fight against a quiet social crisis — the growing number of people on the autism spectrum who come of working age every year.

Just recently, she led her first - ever BarreTHON to raise money for the Autism Society of Northern Virginia.

The Bishop of Truro has been made the new president of one of Britain's leading autism charities.

It is for this reason that they are known to remain in our food supply and can hence lead to the onset of autism without the parents even knowing about it.

Early identification of children with autism leads to better treatment.

The lead author, Karen Bearss, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Marcus Autism Center and Emory University School of Medicine remarked, «It's striking that children in both groups improved, but on measures of disruptive and noncompliant behavior, parent training was clearly better.»

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

With poor gut health being increasingly linked to autism, this may lead to proof that breast - feeding actually reduces the chance of autism in children...

At an event for police officers entitled «Experiences of autism and policing», Drs Maras and Crane will lead a research - based training workshop that aims to improve practices.

His comments came during Seven Days of Action, a campaign led by families to shine a spotlight on the thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties currently detained in some form of in - patient setting.

Moreover, Images of unvaccinated kids who were sick with diseases prevented by the vaccineactually led to an uptick in the number of people who said they thought vaccines cause autism.

Higher amounts of the drug clonazepam, the benzodiazepine used in the experiment, did not alleviate autism symptoms and carried the risk of leading to lethargy.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

And, according to the IOM's 2004 report, there had never been any evidence of a major incident of mercury poisoning leading to autism.

Racial differences in parents» reports of concerns about their child's development to healthcare providers may contribute to delayed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in black children, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

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.

The results of this study not only advance science's understanding of the links between genes, the brain and behavior, but may lead to new insight into such disorders as autism, Down syndrome and schizophrenia.

Antivaxxers distrust big pharma and think that money corrupts medicine, which leads them to believe that vaccines cause autism despite the inconvenient truth that the one and only study claiming such a link was retracted and its lead author accused of fraud.

His parents hustled their son to the psychiatrist, leading to an alphabet soup of diagnoses: ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), OCD (obsessive - compulsive disorder), ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), bipolar disorder, autism and, ultimately, straight - up psychosis.

«Because our findings implicate the earliest stages of cortex circuit formation in a mouse model, they suggest that the pathological changes leading to autism might start before birth in humans.»

Anomalies in DSM - IV criteria for autism and other pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), which includes the subgroups of autistic disorder, Asperger's and PDD - NOS, have led to clinical inconsistency, leading to wide variations in how diagnoses of these are made.

These off - switches make up 20 percent of the outer layer of the brain (the cerebral cortex) and when they malfunction, they can lead to a variety of brain disorders including autism and epilepsy.

DSM - 5 proposes collapsing autism, Asperger's and PDD - NOS into a single «autism spectrum» category, combining and reducing criteria, vastly cutting the number of combinations that can lead to an autism diagnosis.

The work could lead to advances in understanding autism, for example, and deficits that may exist in the neural circuits of the brain that underlie social communication, Neunuebel said.

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.

Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.

With the advent of neuroscience, we know the brains of psychopaths are atypical, leading some experts to call psychopathy a neurodevelopmental disorder, akin to autism, and one that's diagnosable even in small children.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

The new six - year study, «Cognitive enhancement therapy for adult autism spectrum disorder: Results of an 18 - month randomized clinical trial,» involved 54 adults and was led by Shaun Eack, Ph.D., M.S.W., Pitt's David E. Epperson Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry, and Nancy Minshew, M.D., Pitt professor of psychiatry and neurology.

«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's Natautism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's NatAutism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

Although why, exactly, excessive brain growth is related to autism remains a mystery, the new work helps to confirm that signs of the disorder appear early — knowledge that could lead to detection and treatments, such as behavior therapy, at a younger age.

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.

Led by Matthew P. Anderson, MD, PhD, Director of Neuropathology at BIDMC, the scientists determined how a gene linked to one common form of autism works in a specific population of brain cells to impair sociability.

A freezer failure at the world's largest repository of human brains has led to the loss of 147 of them, including a rare collection of 53 brains from donors with autism.

«Recruitment for clinical trials in children with autism is one of the biggest challenges we face in studying potential treatments, and we found that process to be accelerated and streamlined by using existing online communities for enrollment,» said lead author Stephen Bent, associate professor of medicine at UCSF.

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.

This latest study led by Professor Jonathan Green at The University of Manchester in collaboration with Professor Mark Johnson's MRC - funded team at Birkbeck, and teams at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and Evelina London Children's Hospital, aimed to reduce these early symptoms and lower the likelihood of the child developing difficulties associated with autism later on in childhood.

«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.

A UCLA - led study has found that the communication skills of minimally verbal children with autism can be greatly improved through personalized interventions that are combined with the use of computer tablets.

The team, led by Dr. Thomas W. Frazier, Ph.D. of Cleveland Clinic, hypothesized that more time spent looking at social targets and less time spent looking at non-social targets could be combined into a single «Autism Risk Index» to identify ASD cases.

Due to the growing prevalence of ASD (1 in 68 children in the U.S.) and the lack of objective markers, identifying remote eye gaze tracking as an objective measure of autism could aide early identification leading to more rapid treatment.

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.

Identifying the earliest signs of autism is important because it may allow for diagnosis before behavioural changes appear, leading to earlier intervention and better prospects for a positive outcome.

«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 Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased activity in an area in the brain critical for understanding if his / her movement was imitated by others.

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.