The newest
study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project — the world's largest autism genome sequencing program — identified an additional 18 gene variations that appear to increase the risk of autism.
Not exact matches
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.
Another 2012
study calculated that mutations leading to
autism were four times more likely to come
from the father than the mother.
A new
study found that kids with
autism were slower to integrate stimuli
from different senses, providing possible explanations for behavioral differences
Though the
study was small, using cells
from only four autistic patients and eight family members, the results may indicate common factors underlying
autism, the scientists say.
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.
These observations jibe with those
from a
study of 26,000 adults with
autism and 130,000 controls in Sweden, which found that most people with
autism prefer partners on the spectrum.
Nearly all of Wakefield's coauthors have since retracted the
autism implications of their work; The Lancet has also backed away
from the
study.
He and his colleagues relied on two overlapping cohorts of children, drawn mainly
from ongoing
studies of
autism, who had
autism or closely related conditions.
At one point in 2016, according to the lawsuit, «Lipkin kept insisting on capturing a particular message
from work [on an
autism / prenatal acetaminophen
study] which did not appear to be supported by the data.»
In addition, it's been difficult to repeat the findings
from individual genetic
studies — partly, researchers think, because
autism is so variable and may really be many different diseases.
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
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.
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.
Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing
autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological
study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
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.
That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the
study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging
from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.
With funding
from the Organization of
Autism Research, Savage has begun the new «Step It Up» study at FPG to evaluate the effectiveness of a self - managed exercise program in which adults with autism and an intellectual disability will use Fi
Autism Research, Savage has begun the new «Step It Up»
study at FPG to evaluate the effectiveness of a self - managed exercise program in which adults with
autism and an intellectual disability will use Fi
autism and an intellectual disability will use Fitbits.
A new
study from Aarhus University, Denmark, helps us understand why people with
autism and schizophrenia have difficulties with social interaction.
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.
To conduct the
study, scientists took dental pulp cells
from donated baby teeth of three children with diagnoses of non-syndromic
autism (part of the on - going «Tooth Fairy Project») and reprogrammed the cells to become either neurons or astrocytes, a type of glia or support cell abundantly found in the brain.
The team anticipates future
studies could leverage data
from the Environmental Protection Agency and other sources to identify links between specific environmental causes and increased rates of
autism and ID.
Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with
autism spectrum disorder may reach $ 2.4 million, according to a new
study from researchers
from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The
study included 966 mother - child pairs from the Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study, a population - based case - control study based at the University of California at Davis» MIND Insti
study included 966 mother - child pairs
from the Childhood
Autism Risks
from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE)
Study, a population - based case - control study based at the University of California at Davis» MIND Insti
Study, a population - based case - control
study based at the University of California at Davis» MIND Insti
study based at the University of California at Davis» MIND Institute.
The
study enrolls pregnant mothers who already have a child with
autism and collects information and biological samples
from these mothers, the new baby's father and the babies themselves after birth.
The
study used 2010 data
from five of eleven US sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's
Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.
The
study was funded by a High Risk High Impact grant
from the
Autism Speaks Foundation.
The
study was conducted in more than 1,000 children between the ages of two and three years enrolled in the Childhood Risks of Autism from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study in Northern Califo
study was conducted in more than 1,000 children between the ages of two and three years enrolled in the Childhood Risks of
Autism from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE)
Study in Northern Califo
Study in Northern California.
Interestingly, the authors noted that since the
study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging
from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include
autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»
The brains of children with
autism are relatively inflexible at switching
from rest to task performance, according to a new brain - imaging
study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Certain brain networks in children with
autism do not appear to change much when switching
from a resting state to engagement with a task, a new
study finds.
Researchers presenting the
study abstract, «National Trends in Prevalence and Co-morbid Chronic Conditions among Children with Asthma,
Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,» looked at data
from the National Survey of Children's Health data for 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2012 to spot trends surrounding these conditions by sociodemographic characteristics in the United States.
In a new
study, researchers
from GAMUT, Uni Research Health and University of Bergen, could show that the quality of the therapeutic relationship predicts generalized changes in social skills in children diagnosed with an
autism spectrum condition (ASC).
A
study to be published in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that eye tracking can differentiate children with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
from children without ASD but with other developmental problems (non-ASD).
The research comes
from the Infant Brain Imaging
Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for au
Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural
study of infants at high risk for au
study of infants at high risk for
autism.
Garet Lahvis was a 4th - year assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, when his department chair told him that his
studies of social motivation and communication in mice — research with implications for
autism and drug addiction — had moved too far
from the department's focus on clinical plastic surgery and that the department would have to let him go.
A 2012 review
from Stanford researchers analyzed over 50
studies that used neuroimaging - that is, MRI, fMRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and anything else that takes before - and - after pictures of the brain - to examine the brains of kids with a variety of mental illnesses: anorexia, ADHD,
autism, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and schizophrenia.
The
study, funded in part by a research grant
from Autism Speaks appears online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Even though the primary results of a related
study investigating the effects of music therapy with children with
autism, do not show that music therapy works better than other therapies, subgroup analysis identified that children with childhood
autism or coexisting intellectual disability improve to a greater extend
from music therapy than children with another
autism diagnosis.
Researchers
from the University of Missouri have conducted the first
study analyzing the perspectives of adolescents with
autism to identify challenges as they «age out» of services.
A new
study from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) finds one in three adolescents with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) acquires an intermediate driver's license, and the majority does so in their 17th year.
In another ambitious
study, called the
Autism Birth Cohort, Columbia University and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health will follow 100,000 pregnant women for 72 months,
studying their health and genetics and testing everything
from blood to urine samples.
A September 2008
study in Nature confirmed earlier findings suggesting that 30 percent of people who have a deleted length of three million base pairs in a region of chromosome 22 suffer
from psychiatric conditions such as
autism and schizophrenia.
The
study is the largest analysis of whole genomes
from people with
autism and their family members to date.
The group used data collected
from a University of Utah
autism study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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.
Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with
autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new
study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
It may be possible in future
studies, he suggests, to determine whether children with developmental disorders like
autism have brain structures that differ
from the norm in a similar way.
The reported incidence of gut maladies in people with
autism varies wildly between published
studies —
from zero to more than 80 % — making it difficult to establish just how commonly the two conditions go together, says principal investigator Sarkis Mazmanian, a microbiologist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
For the
studies, researchers examined online survey responses
from 1,345 parents invited to participate through
autism organizations nationwide.