Sentences with phrase «social deficits»

Development of a cognitive - behavioral intervention program to treat anxiety and social deficits in teens with high - functioning autism.

How does the brain fail those with social deficits such as autism?

The facial recognition task was chosen because autism is characterized by social deficits; the math task was chosen to reflect an area in which children with autism do not usually have deficits.

These mice show several features of autism, including social deficits and excessive self - grooming.

According to the researchers, the results provide crucial steps toward developing better solutions for treating the core social deficits found in autism, which could include clinical interventions combined with oxytocin.

A positive relationship between adaptive behaviour and child age was found with improvements in social deficits across child development.

This measure may prove easier than directly assessing language and social deficits in some children, such as those with hearing difficulties.

It presents a strategic architecture for government and the charitable and nonprofit sector to address the looming social deficit in Canada.

«There are similarities between autism and schizophrenia — they both have very severe social deficits,» says one of her collaborators, Abraham Reichenberg, a neuropsychologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.

Offspring of the monkeys also showed social deficits.

Page plans further studies examining the neurobiological relationship between social deficits and repetitive behavior, two of the primary symptoms of autism.

Future studies about romantic attachment will focus on using the findings from research such as Young's and Diamond's to develop new treatments for grief associated with partner separation or loss and for disorders that involve social deficits, such as schizophrenia and autism.

Further, robust links with sociocommunicative symptoms of ASD implicate atypically increased ToM - MNS connectivity in social deficits observed in ASD.»

In a 2012 mouse study, Sahin and colleagues knocked out a TSC gene (Tsc1) in Purkinje cells and found social deficits and repetitive behaviors in the mice, together with abnormalities in the cells.

«This study examined the effect of romidepsin on social deficits in a particular mouse model: mice with a deficiency in the SHANK3 gene.

By better understanding the specific social deficits suffered by these types of patients, we can begin to discover the component processes of social intelligence, and how they are related to underlying brain regions.

Training of social competencies is a conditio - sine - qua - non in the treatment of depression, either to resolve social deficits, or to improve social competencies so that social exclusion can be avoided or reduced.

Together, both parents have been found to demonstrate positive relationships between child social deficits [39], partner mental health [47, 52, 55] and parent stress.

«Many children that we used to call intellectually disabled and many more with social deficits are now recognized as being on the autism spectrum,» said Kathy Katz, a pediatric psychologist at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC.

As a follow up to his Charities, Sustainable Funding and Smart Growth discussion paper, Chief Economist Brian Emmett presents a strategic architecture for government and the charitable and nonprofit sector to address the looming social deficit in Canada.

Changes in brain metabolic connectivity underlie autistic - like social deficits in a rat model of autism spectrum disorder Cho H, Kim CH, Knight EQ, Oh HW, Park B, Kim DG, Park HJ.

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

Autism spectrum disorders are a range of conditions characterized by social deficits and communication difficulties that typically become apparent early in childhood.

However, social deficits in psychiatric patients are only insufficiently targeted by current treatment approaches, in particular because so far little is known about the neuropharmacological mechanisms underlying these processes in the brain.

Chief Economist for Canada's Charitable and Nonprofit Sector presents a policy architecture for addressing Canada's looming social deficit.

It promised freedom; it has brought us a moral and social deficit, evident in broken families and damaged bodies.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.

«Once HDAC2 is upregulated, it diminishes genes that should not be suppressed, and leads to behavioral changes, such as the autism - like social deficits.»

She and her colleagues knew that chromatin regulators — which control how genetic material gains access to a cell's transcriptional machinery — were key to treating the social deficits in ASD, but the challenge was to know how to affect key risk factors at once.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

Race significantly affected how parents reported concerns about their children's social deficits and restricted and repetitive behaviors.

Black parents were less likely than white parents to report concerns about two ASD symptoms — social deficits and restricted and repetitive behaviors.

The study, which appears in Biological Psychiatry, suggests that social impairments characteristic of autism spectrum disorder may stem from alteration of activity in this circuit, and that tuning this circuit may help treat the social deficits in the disorder.

Turning down habenula activity prevented the social deficits that could be induced by activating the frontal region.

«Understanding how altered brain function leads to social deficits could help develop novel targeted therapeutics for autism spectrum disorder,» said Ghosh, such as by tuning the circuit to correct the altered activity.

Nadia is an autistic savant, with a rare condition marked by severe mental and social deficits but also by a mysterious talent that appears spontaneously, usually before age 6.

«When we deleted the gene and were able to reconstitute the social deficits, that was the moment we realized we'd hit the right target.

John Allman of the California Institute of Technology thinks that much of this social deficit may come down to a lack of a special class of spindle neurons, sometimes called Von Economo neurons after their discoverer, who made the observation in 1925.

The new findings are among several recent signs that treatments to address the social deficits at the core of autism may be on the horizon.

Scientists are starting to compare the social deficits autism and schizophrenia share, using a variety of methods, from eye tracking and behavioral assessments to electroencephalography (EEG)-- a noninvasive way to track the brain's electrical activity.

One of Kuhl's first important clues that social deficits might hinder language acquisition in autism came from her 2005 study of «Motherese» — the exaggerated, sing - song baby talk that parents instinctively shower on their children.

* «Social deficits in Shank3 - deficient mouse models of autism are rescued by histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibition» by Luye Qin et al. will be published in Nature Neuroscience on Monday 12 March 2018.