Sentences with phrase «patients with autism»

Formal Characteristics of Thematic Apperception Test Narratives of Adult Patients with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The most obvious of these is the reliance on clinical judgements, the potential for interrater reliability confounds, and potential effects of culturally informed biases (including potential for misdiagnosis among Indigenous patients with autism and intellectual disability20).

Risperdal is also used to treat aggression in some patients with autism.

We had over 500 patients with autism involved in a study that we look at there.

Patients with autism have more inflammatory disorders than average (such as digestive disorders, allergies, ear infections, or skin eruptions) and brain imaging and autopsies show more brain inflammation in individuals of all ages with autism.

Decreased pyramidal neuron size in Brodmann areas 44 and 45 in patients with autism.

So they may diagnose patients with autism or a behavioral disorder and miss the broader picture.

«The initial idea was to determine the DNA sequence of patients with autism, for instance, find the one or two mutated genes that cause the disease, and develop drugs to overcome the mutations» negative effects,» explained Krogan.

Together, they found that the human gene PTCHD1, which is missing in around 1 % of patients with autism, plays a crucial role in suppressing noise and allowing the brain to perceive signals unimpeded.

CPGH genetic counselor Allison Schreiber, MS, LGC, discusses genetic testing for patients with autism with long - time GMI friend and Chief Science Officer of Autism Speaks Tom Frazier II, PhD, during his keynote address at MIS2017.

«Patients with autism report lots of immunological problems.

By mapping the neural processes involved as birds learn mating songs, scientists hope to someday use that knowledge to target specific genes disrupting speech in patients with autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions.

First, an analysis of genomic data from 6,000 patients with autism spectrum disorders, 1,000 patients with bipolar disorder, and 2,500 patients with schizophrenia by co-first author Pierre - Marie Martin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheyette's lab, revealed that disruptive mutations in the main neuronal form of DIXDC1 were present about 80 percent more often in psychiatric patients (0.9 percent had mutations) compared to healthy controls (0.5 percent had mutations).

«Why patients with autism spectrum disorder have difficulty noticing «being imitated».»

The research, published in the journal Nature, reveals the neurobiological control of sociability and could represent important first steps toward interventions for patients with autism.

New research reveals the neurobiological control of sociability and could represent important first steps toward interventions for patients with autism.

The Muotri lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with autism and schizophrenia to look for biomarkers of these conditions.

Patients with autism, cerebral palsy, attention deficit disorder, Down syndrome, and other developmental and behavioral conditions

Not exact matches

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.

«The interaction between the two types of neurons could also help explain the presence of seizures in patients with schizophrenia, dementia and some forms of autism.»

Altered patterns of variability were observed in the brain's default network with schizophrenia, autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients.

At much higher doses, benzodiazepines treat epilepsy and anxiety in human patients now, including those with autism.

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.

A clinical faculty member in the autism clinic at Yale University, Gault was doing something she loved — working with children — but her inability to offer these desperate young patients and their families better interventions was beginning to gnaw at her.

These results predict that Dravet syndrome patients may have better social interactions and fewer autism - like symptoms when treated with low doses of cannabidiol.

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.

«Concern that children with autism were not able to access services through private insurance even in the context of parity laws was one reason why patient advocates have pushed for these state mandates that apply specifically to autism coverage,» Barry says.

Patients with the disorder have epilepsy, autism and heart problems.

In addition to suffering growth abnormalities, patients with this disorder also have abnormally large brains and an increased risk of autism.

The same change is seen in patients with neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, Down's syndrome, and autism, and in people with poor impulse control.

A tool intended to detect signs of autism in high - risk infants can be used to help identify and treat patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder, who most need early intervention.

The ARID1B gene is one of the most commonly mutated genes in patients with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders, but scientists have not yet discerned if and how defects in the ARID1B gene contribute to these clinical manifestations.

«Autism is such a heterogeneous disorder, and every patient presents with different symptoms and levels of severity,» said Lauren Libero, Ph.D., first author of the study.

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.

Scientists have found hundreds of genes that are mutated in patients with disorders such as autism, but each patient usually has only a handful of these variations.

Although only a small percentage of autism patients have mutations in Shank3, many other variant synaptic proteins have been associated with the disorder.

The brain is almost invariably affected, and patients often present with epilepsy, autism and mental retardation.

Debilitating dysfunctions of social interactions are encountered in 3 % of the population — in autism, conduct disorder or psychopathy — with severe consequences both for the patients and those close to them.

While patients with neurodevelopmental disorders like intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder have clinical features which overlap, there is an enormous diversity of underlying genetic causes.

Applying those fundamental insights to human disease, Halassa teamed up with MIT neuroscientist Guoping Feng to unravel how TRN neurons go awry in some patients with a form of autism.

Tamim H. Shaikh, Ph.D., CU School of Medicine: Research genetic modifiers of autism spectrum disorders in patients with Down syndrome

Goel, raised in Bangalore, India, has focused in particular on Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that can occur along with autism and is thought to be the genetic cause of autism in patients with Fragile X syndrome.

When created from the stem cells of a patient with microcephaly, the brains - in - a-dish resembled that often - fatal condition; those created from cells of patients with severe autism indicated that out - of - control neuron growth is the underlying cause of that disorder.

Some of the most debilitating symptoms for patients with TSC are those that are associated with the brain, such as frequent seizures, epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability.

For example, there are many causes for autism, so the same drug may not work for all patients with this disorder.

For example, a study conducted in his own lab found that forebrain assembloids generated from patients with Timothy syndrome — a genetic disease associated with autism and epilepsy, showed abnormal migration of GABAergic neurons during the development of the cerebral cortex.

Because more than one - third of fragile X patients are also diagnosed with autism, the study may shed light on that condition.

The answer given was patients with Celiac Disease, NCGS, and possibly autism and schizophrenia.

«Partially digested dairy and wheat particles (called caseomorphins and gliadomorphins) are found in the urine of severely depressed patients (as well as children with autism and ADHD).

To demonstrate the validity of this thesis, Dr. Hyman provides numerous examples of patients with a wide variety of apparently disparate brain disorders, ranging from autism to depression to eating disorders to addictions to ADHD to dementia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, all of whom experienced not just resolution of symptoms, but recovery of healthful function as a result of his application of the functional medicine matrix to their unique physiology, history and current circumstances.