Summary:The researchers separated baby mice of different strains from their mothers. The pups made noises to bring mum back, rather like human babies crying. These ultrasonic calls are too high for the human ear to hear, but the researchers detected them wit..
Summary:Recently, Harvard researchers reported that children with autism have a wide range of genetic defects, making it nearly impossible to develop a simple genetic test to identify the disorder. Now, University of Missouri researchers are studying 3-D ima..
Summary:According to the study, which is available on the Web site of the journal Social Neuroscience, inefficient pathways for transmitting information between certain brain regions are to blame. The research implicates abnormalities in the brain's inter-re..
Summary:Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, are studying the way the brain cells of among autistic people behave by fusing cells from the preserved brains of deceased patients with the eggs of a carnivorous African frog called Xenopus.
The..
Summary:Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience has implicated a half-dozen new genes in autism. More importantly, it strongly supports the emerging idea that autism stems from disrupti..
Summary:SCIENTISTS have discovered that water plays a key role in causing an autism condition affecting one in 100,000 girls.
The insight into the cause of the neurological disorder Rett's syndrome has been uncovered in a study at Edinburgh University.
T..
Summary:It's been an amazing year for discoveries about autism and genes-and it's only July. The latest news: Some genes involved in the disorder may affect the brain's ability to develop in response to experience, a key aspect of learning.
That follows t..
Summary:The lack of two related genes tied to autism may also disrupt the body's natural sleep cycle and cause further mental impairment, a new report says.
Mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene (FMR1) and a similar gene called fragile X-re..
Summary:Federal health officials on Sunday will call together some of the world’s leading experts on an obscure disease to discuss the controversial case of a 9-year-old girl from Athens, Ga., who became autistic after receiving numerous vaccinations...
Summary:"Every time I run across new research, or read a new book, I'm turned on again: 'Could this be the cause?'"
Washington University psychiatrists Kelly Botteron and John Constantino believe the key to answering that question, at least in part, lies ..
Summary:Autistic patients given oxytocin as part of a study in New York found their ability to recognise emotions such as happiness or anger in a person's tone of voice - something which usually proved difficult - also improved.
Experiments by Dr Eric Hol..
Summary:Cortisol is often referred to as the stress hormone because it is secreted during the "fight-or-flight" response and is involved in various stress-related changes in the body. The affect of cortisol as a biological marker of stress and dysregulation ..
Summary:A psychology researcher has pinpointed regions of the brain that are linked to "ritualistic repetitive behavior" in autistic children -- the insatiable desire to rock back and forth for hours or to tirelessly march in place.
Keith Shafritz, an ass..
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Volume 351, Number 9103 28 February 1998 Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children A J Wakefield, S H Murch, A Anthony, J Linnell, D M Casson, M Malik, M Berelowitz, A P Dhillon, M A ..
Summary:AIMS: A new form of inflammatory bowel disease (ileocolonic lymphonodular hyperplasia) has been described in a cohort of children with developmental disorder. ..
Summary:Genetic links to impaired social behavior in autism
Philadelphia, PA, May 13, 2008 – Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show profound deficits in social interactions and communications, and display repetitive behaviors and abnormal r..
Summary:Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have discovered how an antibiotic works to modulate the activity of a neurotransmitter that regulates brain functions, which eventually could lead to therapies to treat Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's di..
Summary:Several extraintestinal clinical manifestations have been reported in celiac disease (CD). Among them, growing evidence suggests the association between CD and affective and psychiatric disorders. In this review the most frequent affective and psychi..
Summary:Playing a video game called ‘Space Race’ that requires nothing more than brainpower to make rockets on a computer screen move forward is more than just fun and games. A University of Missouri researcher is using video games to see if the brainwaves o..
Summary:Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently generated a mice model for autistic savants - a phenomenon in which an autistic person has an outstanding skill alongside his poor ability in social interactions. By using..
Summary:People with autism experienced less severe symptoms after researchers pulsed a low frequency magnetic field around their brains, a University of Louisville research team announced today.
The treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation, is still i..
Summary:A small study of toddlers finds that about one-quarter of babies born very prematurely had signs of autism on an early screening test.
The research is preliminary since formal autism testing wasn't done. But the results are provocative, suggesting..
Summary:Could autism and schizophrenia be cousins? New research shows that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations. The finding is startlingly similar to ne..
Summary:A gene that helps the brain make connections may underlie a significant number of autism cases, researchers in the United States reported on Tuesday.
Disruptions in the gene, called contactin 4, stop the gene from working properly and appear to st..
Summary:In graduate school at the University of Tennessee, he created some effects similar to autism in a group of mice by using a genetic mutation that caused a part of the brain called the cerebellum to not fully develop. Abnormal development of the cerebe..
Summary:Hello, my name is Jaclyn Anthony, I work at UNC Chapel Hill with the Autism Research Program on a MRI Study of Early Brain Development. This study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is being conducted by some of the worlds leading researc..
Summary:There are several studies going on at the University of Pittsburgh. They are trying to find ways to diagnos autism in infancy. They are also looking at how people with Autism think. One of the studies is a sibling study were they track an infant w..
Summary:Many children with autism have elevated blood levels of serotonin - a chemical with strong links to mood and anxiety. But what relevance this "hyperserotonemia" has for autism has remained a mystery.
New research by Vanderbilt University Medical C..
Summary:A new method of screening fruit flies has helped researchers identify several drugs and small molecules that reverse the features of fragile X (FX) syndrome - a leading cause of autism.
"Our discovery of glutamate toxicity in the Drosophila (fruit..
Summary:Researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling asleep.
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Summary:Researchers have discovered that the brains of males with autism have fewer neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory. The study is the first neuroanatomical study to quantify a key difference in the autistic amygdal..
Summary:A groundbreaking study that sheds new light on the genetic component of autism was co-authored by an Auburn High School graduate who first got interested in the disorder as a teenage volunteer in Rockford.
Lauren Weiss was the lead junior author o..
Summary:Researchers at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities report a study that finds altered development of neural progenitor cells (immature or undifferentiated cells) after the cells were stimulated with blood sera..
Summary: Researchers at the University of Missouri are joining a national effort to find out why some children have autism even though no member of their extended family suffers from the disorder.
The research at Missouri's Thompson Center for Autism and ..
Summary:In a flood of new studies closely looking at autism, the latest has confirmed what many parents have told Doctor Ken Norwood for years, that a fever can temporarily unlock autism's grip on a child.
“It suggests that there may be something about wh..
Summary:"The big goal, the ultimate goal is to find out as much information as we can to help understand the cause of autism," said Dr. Stephen Kanne, co-investigator for the project.
For the project, the Thompson Center must provide blood samples from at..
Summary:New research from the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and Center for Children's Environmental Health has found that antibodies in the blood of mothers of children with autism bind to fetal brain cells, potentially interrupting healthy brain development. ..
Summary:anderbilt Sleep Disorders Center researchers are reporting that melatonin, an over-the-counter and relatively inexpensive dietary supplement taken for insomnia and jet lag, shows promise in treating children with autism who have difficulty falling as..
Summary:Researchers have made a breakthrough in the fight against autism, by identifying subtle deficits in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that they say could help more precise diagnoses and possibly improve treatment of ASD.
Sci..
Summary:By imaging the brains of adolescents with a high-functioning form of autism as they played a social-interaction game, scientists have identified a physiological deficit specific to the disorder. The researchers believe that the change is linked to a ..
Summary: Researchers at the University of Washington were recently granted $11.3 million to work on the prevention of autism. Their work will be the first study done with a pre-symptomatic population who are thought to be at risk for autism because they have..
Summary:Do children with autism spectrum disorders have more sleep issues than typically developing children?
Answer: The short answer to this question is -- yes! Several studies support parents' statements that their children with autism have more seriou..
Summary:EVIDENCE is mounting that men who become fathers in their 40s or older are more likely to produce children with brain development disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.
Queensland researchers have found adult mice born to older fathers have dif..
Summary:Results of an early study suggest that dairy-free diets and unconventional food preferences could put boys with autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at higher than normal risk for thinner, less dense bones when compared to a group of boys the sa..
Summary:Autism researchers at the University of Michigan, the University of California-Davis and the University of Washington have been awarded a $15.3 million grant to determine the impact of intervening with toddlers age 2 and younger as part of the NIH Au..
Summary:In another tantalizing link between the immune system and autism, researchers at the University of California Davis have found 11 genes, all governing “natural killer“ immune cells, that are more active in autistic children than in other youngsters.
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Summary:This looks at the statistical difference in stess and coping mechanisms in parents of child affected by ASD. It also looks at how father and mothers differ..
Summary:WOMEN thinking of becoming pregnant can greatly reduce the danger of having an autistic child by undergoing toxicity tests, a Geelong scientist has claimed.
Frank Parsons, of Alternative Health Sciences, said yesterday that in a world-first he had..
Summary:SCIENTISTS in the region are investigating whether diet has any effect on the behaviour of children with autism.
Edward Carey with mum Carol
Four-year-old Edward Carey, one of the youngsters taking part, has an extremely rare condition which affe..
Summary:BRAIN scans are delivering a new perspective on autism and Asperger syndrome, providing a greater understanding of what is behind the characteristic repetitive behaviour.
Professor Florence Levy, from the University of NSW's school of psychiatry, ..
Summary:A new study by an international group of scientists describes in atomic detail a protein complex that is affected by genetic mutations implicated in autism spectrum disorders. The research team, including scientists from the University of California,..
Summary:Specifically, then, I feel strongly that the NIH should support research which:
* Seeks to define various subtypes of autism based on symptoms and severity of symptoms (including sensory disturbances, evidence of seizure disorders, gastrointes..
Summary:The purpose of this time-sensitive RFI is to seek input from ASD stakeholders such as individuals with ASD and their families, autism advocates, scientists, health professionals, therapists, educators, state and local programs for ASD, and the public..
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The National Institute of Mental Health has issued a "Request for Information (RFI): Research Priorities for the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)." Please see the official notice for more ..
Summary:Take ARI's Treatment Effectiveness Survey
Please take a moment to fill out the Autism Research Institute's "Parent Ratings of Behavioral Effects of Biomedical Interventions."
Here's why: for 30 years ARI has collected and tabulated parent rating..
Summary:A Spectrum of Disorders:
The urgent search to understand the biological basis of autism
The pursuit of autism’s molecular roots has led Christopher Walsh, Bullard professor of neurology and chief of the division of genetics at Children’s Hosp..
Summary:The causes of autism remain largely shrouded in mystery, but there are some types of the disorder that can be traced to specific gene defects. The most common of these — responsible for roughly 5% of autism cases — is a flaw in the X chromosome that ..
Summary:Scientists could be on the verge of a new treatment for autism, if the results of animal research hold up in people. A study in mice suggests that several drugs, including one that is poised to enter trials in human patients as soon as next year, cou..
Summary:The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Excellence in Autism Research has received a $9.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The research being conducted within the ACE will focus on the differences in the thought processes of..
Summary:In the latest edition of the journal Neuron, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, have reported th..
Summary:In a lecture given at this past weekend's American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting, researchers presented results that suggest that brain overgrowth in the latter part of an infant's first year of life may contribute to autis..
Summary:Autism and other brain disorders may be the result of a missing protein important for building communication networks in the brain, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that an enzyme c..
Summary:Families of service members at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will be given an opportunity to participate in research intended to help learn more about autism and develop therapies for treating it.
The project involves developing a registry of fa..
Summary:STUDY PURPOSE
The Purpose of the study is to evaluate the possible effectiveness of a new vitamin/mineral supplement in reducing the symptoms of autism.
This will be a National study for children and adults with autism spectrum disorders.
St..
Summary:Fever can temporarily unlock autism's grip on children, a finding that could shed light on the roots of the condition and perhaps provide clues for treatment, researchers reported on Monday.
It appears that fever restores nerve cell communications..
Summary: Researchers are launching the largest-ever U.S. study aimed at solving one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times: the cause of autism.
The incurable disorder now strikes nearly one in 150 American children and shows no sign of letting ..
Summary:Increased levels of glutamate were observed in the frontal cortex from patients with bipolar disorder and major depression. In addition, positive correlations were observed between several pairs of amino acids, including D-serine and glutamate.
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According to a Nov. 27 press release, controlling the symptoms of autism is no longer limited to behavior and communication therapies and prescription medications. Now thousands of parents who've applied nutrition interventions report that what the..
Summary:Children with autism spectrum disorder between the ages of five and 17 years are needed to participate in a research study looking at how a medicine called fluoxetine works to relieve the repetitive behavior and other symptoms associated with autisti..
Summary:As the numbers of children with autism in the United States grow, there is an intense effort underway to find answers quickly. The Mind Institute which stands for Medical Investigation of Neuro-Developmental Disorders is world-renowned. It's a "think..
Summary:The mystery of obsessive-compulsive disorder may be at least partly solved, with a discovery that implicates a structural protein missing in the brains of certain excessively groomed mice.
Mice lacking the protein exhibit excessive grooming to the..
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Eight months ago researchers in Scotland found that they could reverse the debilitating defects and certain death in mice carrying the Rett syndrome gene, well after the mice had regressed into the most severe stages of disease. Although the specif..
Summary:ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2007) — Recent findings are rapidly expanding researchers' understanding of a new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons -- which are active both when people perform an action and when they watch it being performed.
Some scie..
Summary:Evidence Mounts Implicating Lyme Disease in the Autism Epidemic
More proof that infections play a role in this childhood epidemic.
The association between tick-borne infections, Lyme Borreliosis and autism spectrum disorders:
(PRWEB) Novembe..
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Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa), (NYSE: JWb), and the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) today announced their plans to launch a new jour..
Summary:Autism Consortium releases data on genes involved in autism to researchers worldwide
BOSTON – OCTOBER 22, 2007 – The Autism Consortium, a group of researchers, clinicians and families dedicated to radically accelerating research and enhancing clin..
Summary:Brain Imaging Expert Recruited to Study Autism at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Dr. Robert Schultz Investigates the "Social Brain" in Children with Autism -
Brain Imaging Expert Recruited to Study Autism at The Children's Hospital of ..
Summary:Pycnogenol could soothe ADHD symptoms
By Clarisse Douaud
9/12/2007 - A soon-to-be published study has linked French maritime pine bark ingredient Pycnogenol to balancing stress hormones, in turn diminishing symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperac..
Summary:There has been a tremendous break in the study of autism that could help doctors understand why some children develop the disorder.
Autism may be linked to high levels of the hormone testosterone, according to British researchers who said unborn b..
Summary:'Rain Man' Mice Provide Model For Autism
Science Daily — Mice containing a mutated human gene implicated in autism exhibit the poor social skills but increased intelligence akin to the title character's traits in the movie "Rain Man," researchers ..
Summary:Autistic children's use of semantic common sense and theory of mind:...
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To compare Japanese autistic children's use of semantic knowledge and theory of mind with mentally retarded and typically developing children's, they were tes..
Summary:Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world
From The Times
August 27, 2007
Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world
Parents and scientists are hoping that a new detailed analysis based on human genome will bring a big b..
Summary:Study sheds light on autism
Friday, August 24, 2007
In people with autism, connections between brain cells may be deficient within single regions, and not just between regions as was previously believed, says a study in this month's issue of the..
Summary:In the first known study of its kind, an article published in the August 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and whose sleep efficiency is poor, experience significant improvement o..
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Children in the UK with speech and language difficulties are prone to loneliness, feelings of frustration and poor self-esteem, a new Department of Health study has revealed.
The study is the first scientific examination of quality of life for c..
Summary:Maureen Cavanaugh (Guest Host): Receiving the diagnosis that your child has autism is a heart-breaking and life-changing event for every family who goes through it. But, if the condition could be diagnosed earlier, researchers say that very-early int..
Summary:Under suspicion
Researchers now believe that autism can be caused by genes in combination with environmental triggers. The question is, what are those triggers?
By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff | August 13, 2007
Nancy Duley wants desperately..
Summary:Study Discovers Link Between Increased White Matter In The Brain And Poor Motor Skills In Children With Autism
Article Date: 31 Jul 2007 - 0:00 PDT
A study published in the August issue of the journal Brain demonstrates, for the first time, a..
Summary:Once Again, the World Discovers That People with Autism Are Bright But Different
by Lisa Jo Rudy
A new story came out in Science Daily this week. Yet again, it seems, science has discovered that people with autism are actually - gasp - pretty bri..
Summary:UIC to study autism
August 7, 2007
The University of Illinois at Chicago announced Monday that it's been given a $9.6 million federal grant to create an Autism Center of Excellence. UIC researchers will focus on investigating the underlying cause..
Summary:New Model For Autism Suggests Women Carry The Disorder And Explains Age As A Risk Factor
Science Daily — A new model for understanding how autism is acquired has been developed by a team of researchers led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) a..
Summary:The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) was created in December 2001–the product of the shared vision and unique life experiences of OAR’s seven founders. Led by these parents and grandparents of children and adults on the autism spectrum, OAR set..
Summary:New Study Suggests Pediatric Ritalin Use May Affect Developing Brain
Use of the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug Ritalin by young children may cause long-term changes in the developing brain, suggests a new study of very young ..
Summary:The Sooner the Better
A new study finds that autism can be identified at around 14 months, much earlier than previously thought. How early diagnosis can improve
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Scientists Reverse Symptoms of Autism in Mice
MONDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse symptoms of mental retardation and autism in mice.
Researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and..
Summary:Autism Research Institute: 40 Years of Hope and Success
Dr. Bernard Rimland's unassuming storefront office houses the world-renowned Autism Research Institute, which has improved the lives of thousands of children with autism - bringing relief, ho..
Summary:Autism Network Resources for Physicians is a resource website listing links to autism research and related sites that will be of interest to physicians. The goal of this site is to assist the medical community in their efforts to understand autism an..
