Breaking news on Autism
Toddlers With Autism May Fix Their Eyes On Geometric Patterns Rather Than Children Playing published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:00:00 PDT
Children with autism may stare at geometric patterns when they are just 14 months old rather than look at kids playing around or doing yoga, say researchers in an article published in Archives of General Psychiatry. Children without autism prefer looking at other kids doing things, the authors added. Autism is known as a complex developmental disability...
Visual Pattern Preference May Be Indicator Of Autism In Toddlers published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic geometric patterns than they do looking at social images - a viewing pattern not found in either typical or developmentally delayed toddlers...
Lineagen, Inc. Selected To Present At The 2010 Genetic Risk Factors For Autism: Translating Discoveries Into Diagnostics Symposium In Toronto published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Lineagen, Inc., a developer of innovative genomic tests and services for the screening, evaluation and diagnosis of complex disorders and diseases including autism spectrum disorders, announced today that Dr. Michael S...
CIGNA Offers Free Nine-Month Autism Education Series Starting In September published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Starting in September, CIGNA will offer a series of free monthly telephone seminars to help people better understand the physical, mental, and emotional challenges in children who may display the symptoms of developmental disorders like autism and Asperger syndrome...
Autistic Children And Families In Detroit Are Offered Help From The Children's Center Of Wayne County As They Prepare For School published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
In preparation for the new school year The Children's Center's is gearing up their early intervention programs for families and children with autistic spectrum disorders between the ages 18 months to 6 years old. The Children's Center (TCC) recognizes one of the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States affecting our children is Autism...
Infant's Gaze May Be An Early, But Subtle, Marker For Autism Risk published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Kennedy Krieger Institute announced new study results showing an early marker for later communication and social delays in infants at a higher-risk for autism may be infrequent gazing at other people when unprompted...
Scientists Measure Gene Mutation Rate In Autism And Schizophrenia published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
An international study led by University of Montreal scientists suggests family history may not be a good predictor of the presence of mutations predisposing to autism or schizophrenia. The findings show how new or de novo gene mutations - alterations of the cell's DNA - play a role in these devastating conditions...
Six-year Study Provides Documentation Of Theorized Differences In Brain's Cortex In Autism Disorders published
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
There is still much that is unknown about autism spectrum disorders, but a University of Nevada, Reno psychologist has added to the body of knowledge that researchers around the world are compiling to try to demystify, prevent and treat the mysterious condition...
Alarming Increase In Autism Brings Together Hundreds Of Parents, Researchers And Clinicians From Around The World To Long Beach This October published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new estimates that one in every 110 children (1 in 70 boys) is diagnosed with autism. Autism has become more common in our children than cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined...
Fla.'s Jackson Health System Struggles With Nursing Home And Hospital Losses; Advocates Push Marijuana Cultivation In Calif. published
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System's "governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses. Almost 100 of the 289 nursing home patients in the Jackson Health System are uninsured. Half of those are undocumented immigrants under age 50...
Curemark To Present At BioPharm America™ 2010 published
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Curemark, LLC, a drug research and development company focused on the treatment of neurological diseases, will present at BioPharm America™ 2010, to be held September 15-17 in Boston at the Marriott Boston Copley Place, the company announced. Dr. Joan Fallon, Curemark's founder and CEO, will provide an overview of the company's enzyme replacement therapy targeted to autism...
Researchers Connect APC Protein To Autism And Mental Retardation published
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
A clue to the causes of autism and mental retardation lies in the synapse, the tiny intercellular junction that rapidly transfers information from one neuron to the next...
Autism Research: For Measuring And Analyzing Child Behavior, NSF Awards $10M To Develop Computing Techniques published
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $10 million "Expeditions in Computing" award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel computing techniques for measuring and analyzing the behavior of children. These technologies will be used to enable new approaches for identifying children at risk for autism and other developmental delays...
Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium To Develop Tools For Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors published
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five-year, $10 million initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create novel tools for evaluating social interactions and other behaviors that can be used in diagnosing or treating behavioral disorders such as autism...
Autism Research Finds Empirical Link Between Multisensory Integration And Autism published
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has provided concrete evidence that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) process sensory information such as sound, touch and vision differently than typically developing children...
Developmental Problems, Some Exist In The Genes published
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Everyone is special in their own unique way. From a genetic point of view, no two humans are genetically identical. This means that DNA for each individual contains variants that are more or less common in the overall population. Some gene variations are actually genetic deletions, where sections of DNA 'code' are missing entirely...
Language As A Window Into Sociability published
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
People with Williams syndrome - known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers - process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders - characterized by social withdrawal and isolation-found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies...
Disturbances In Certain Genes Play A Role In Autism published
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Together with colleagues from an international research group, autism researcher Christopher Gillberg of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has found in a new study that autism can be partially explained by abnormalities in certain genes. The group's results could, in the long run, pave the way for more appropriate treatments for autism...
Robots To Help Children With Autism published
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Interbots, Inc., a high-tech spin-off company associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center has teamed up with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to provide innovative robot-based therapy for children with autism...
New Brain Scan Diagnoses Autism In Adults published
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
UK scientists have developed a new type of brain scan that only takes 15 minutes and can diagnose autism in adults with over 90 per cent accuracy: they hope to develop it so it can be used to screen children for autism spectrum disorders...
Lack Of Evidence To Support Use Of Antidepressants For Autism published
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Antidepressants commonly prescribed to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended based on current evidence, a new study by Cochrane Researchers concludes...
Autism And Antidepressants, No Compelling Evidence That It Helps published
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:00:00 PDT
Based on current evidence, the commonly practiced therapy of prescribing antidepressants to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers...
Free Program Available For Parents Of Children With Autism, Australia published
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers at UQ's Parenting and Family Support Centre are offering a free program to parents of children aged two to nine with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Called "Primary Care Stepping Stones Triple P", it is the latest version of the popular Stepping Stones Triple P program, designed specifically for parents of children with a disability...
Relatives Of Individuals With Autism Tend To Display Abnormal Eye Movements published
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Abnormal eye movements and other sensorimotor and neurobehavioral impairments appear common in unaffected family members of individuals with autism, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
'Brain Injury' Is Newest Disability Intensive Course Introduced To College Of Direct Support Curriculum published
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The College of Direct Support (CDS), an internet-based college for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) and managed in partnership by Elsevier/MC Strategies and the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center, has introduced its fourth Disability Intensive Course (DIC) into the CDS Curriculum "Brain Injury...
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