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A group of scientists at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, says that teaching autistic children how to “talk things through in their head” could make the young ones more capable of leading an independent lifestyle later on, free from having to be under constant supervision.
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26 January 2012
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Scientists from the Drexel University say that smoking during pregnancy is not directly linked to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children, despite what other studies have shown.
Investigators with the research team conducted a study on this potential correlation on a large population sample fr... |
16 January 2012
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A team of scientists at the University of South Florida says that it managed to link abnormalities in the human immune system with the onset of pervasive developmental disorders such as autism. The data could be useful for developing new types of therapies for these conditions.
Patients suffering from autism spectru... |
5 January 2012
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A group of investigators based at the Stanford University School of Medicine says that it was recently able to conduct a groundbreaking research on the causes underlying the development of autism. Specialized stem cells derived from mature skin cells were critical to this study.
What the team did was grow brain-like... |
28 November 2011
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Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, say that they were recently able to identify the single genetic mutations that are responsible for the development of several conditions in the autism spectrum (ASD).
The finding is bittersweet in a way, since scientists addressed cond... |
24 November 2011
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Larger-than-normal numbers of nerve cells in areas of the brain involved in social, communication and cognitive development have been proven to be common in children suffering from autism, and especially in boys.
Investigators from the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD... |
12 November 2011
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In a new investigation conducted at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, researchers discovered that young lab rats who were given antidepressants commonly used by human patients tended to start displaying brain abnormalities and behaviors that appear in autism spectrum disorders
Experts interpret the findi... |
26 October 2011
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists announce the development of a new scientific method for strengthening synapses between neurons grown in the lab. This represents the first time such an achievement is reached.
A number of neurological conditions, including neurodegenerative dementia and autism,... |
26 October 2011
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) investigators say that the brains of autistic children do not develop as fast and as efficiently as the brains of healthy kids of comparable age and status.
This discovery potentially indicates new avenues of research when it comes to understanding autism, and developi... |
21 October 2011
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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing scientists have determined that children with low weight at birth tend to be 500 percent more likely to develop autism than peers who are of normal weight.Investigators carried out the new study because they wanted to know whether natal prematurity was indeed linked to a h... |
17 October 2011
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Experts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) say that they were recently able to determine some of the most important characteristics of the inabilities autistic people experience in social interactions. Determining why this happens and how has thus far eluded scientists.
While the fact that social... |
11 October 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Scientists have been arguing that autism and related disorders have a genetic basis for quite some time now, and some researches succeed in showing tantalizing evidence that that may be the case. In new study, a research team in the United States demonstrates for certain that gene variations are involved.
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4 October 2011
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A team of investigators recently determined that standard intelligence tests (IQ assessments) are not well suited enough to gage the mental capabilities of individuals who are suffering from an autism spectrum disorder. The study was carried out on people suffering from Asperger syndrome.
A standardized approach t... |
3 October 2011
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) recently made a proposition that shocked the international scientific community, and that is likely to cause controversy even among evolutionary biologists and paleontologists. They say that autism may have actually bee a good thing at times. The investigatio... |
26 September 2011
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Alleged LulzSec and Anonymous spokesperson Topiary might continue in the footsteps of Gary McKinnon and Ryan Cleary and build a defense around an autism spectrum disorder.According to the Daily Mail, Jake Davis, the 18-year-old teenager from Lerwick, Shetland Islands, who is believed to be the hacktivist known as Top... |
1 August 2011
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Infants born from mothers who used some of the most common antidepressants during pregnancy are at a higher risk of developing autism than peers whose mothers did not consume the drugs. The link was found to be especially strong for prenatal exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy. The risk increase was foun... |
5 July 2011
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IT-rich regions appear to have a much higher incidence of autism that areas where technology has not yet penetrated so deeply. These are the conclusions of a new study by Cambridge University experts, who are the first ever to look for this connection. Before the beginning of the study, the team predicted that autism... |
20 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study on the issue, it would appear that hundreds of very small genetic variants may contribute to underlying disorders belonging to the autism spectrum.All on their own, none of these variation would probably cause any ill side-effects, but their effect increases the ... |
9 June 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers sought to determine the potential uses that a brain imaging technique called functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) could have on detecting autism.For the research, the research team selected a group of 12-year-old kids, of which 15 were healthy control, and 12 exh... |
1 June 2011
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Until now, investigators trying to make sense of how autism works were stopped in their tracks by the fact that the mental illness appeared to leave no discernible tracks behind. In a new study, researchers in the United States finally managed to find the molecular effects of autism.This is the first time that physic... |
26 May 2011
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A group of scientists believes it may have discovered one of the mechanisms underlying the development of autism. The condition, which affects numerous children around the world, is being fervently researched, but progress is generally slow. People who suffer from this condition tend to exhibit impaired social skills... |
4 May 2011
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For the first time ever, scientists have now put together a model of the autistic brain, which reveals the changes that allow the autistic brain to have the abilities it does. The model combines well over 15 years of research into this field.For years, experts have been wondering about how is it that people suffering... |
5 April 2011
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By engineering a mutation in a single gene, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to produce lab mice that exhibited symptoms characterizing autism in humans. The mouse genome apparently needed little modifications in order to display compulsive and repetitive behaviors, the team sa... |
21 March 2011
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A team of American researchers was finally able to provide proof that adult people who suffer from autism have hindered theories of mind, as in the impaired ability to infer what other people are thinking and feeling. This makes social contact awkward and difficult. One of the main things that allowed our society to ... |
1 February 2011
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The British Medical Journal declared today, January 6, 2011, that the 1998 Lancet paper that implied a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, was “an elaborate fraud.”The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against Measles, Mumps and Rubella – also called German measles, and it was first developed... |
5 January 2011
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Scientists in the United Kingdom have recently determined that children who suffer from autism tend to perform very poorly in tasks that rely on visual skills, including object recognition. The finding could have important applications in developing new ways of approaching this condition.University of Bristol experts... |
21 December 2010
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A team of researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School have discovered a possible new treatment strategy for socially impaired people suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and they are moving toward a small-scale clinical trial.For their research, EVMS scientists used a certain mouse strain, called the... |
10 December 2010
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) demonstrate in a new study that children with autism are also highly likely to suffer from defects in their mitochondria, which are structures generally refer to as the “power plants” of the cell. An important conclusion of the research is that the... |
8 December 2010
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Autistic people have difficulties in interpreting social cues, so Gustav Kuhn of Brunel University along with Anastasia Kourkoulou and Susan R. Leekam of Cardiff University, UK, thought that in order to better understand their functioning, they could use magic tricks.A good magician is one who moves so fast that peop... |
21 October 2010
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A new research carried out by the University of Montreal, concluded that a dog might not be just a man's best friend, but it can also play an amazing role in the lives of children with special needs.Sonia Lupien, senior researcher and a professor at the University of Montreal Department of Psychiatry and Directo... |
20 October 2010
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A team of medical researchers from the University of Utah – U of U, have managed to diagnose autism using a MRI scan, by analyzing the communication between the left and the right brain hemispheres.This new step could help health care providers identify autism much earlier in children, and also lead to a bette... |
13 October 2010
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Autism is a disorder that affects numerous children around the world, but now experts appear to be closing in on the molecular agents that appear to underlie at least a portion of all autism cases.Investigations have thus far been conducted on lab animals, cadavers, and even in a small clinical trials, and the result... |
15 September 2010
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A team of investigators managed to use an established form of brain imaging to produce maps of how neural networks change and evolve in the human brain over a period of time.Mapping out these complex interactions was no easy task, but determining this data was of the utmost importance. The study was mostly conducted ... |
10 September 2010
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In everyone's body there are some genes that “know” which parent they come from and as our female ancestors spread more than our male ancestors, they can trigger a conflict that influences the way we behave, suggests a new research.Researchers from Oxford University and the University of Tennessee, K... |
6 September 2010
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A new software allows scientists to analyze young children's vocalizations and determine language learning in familiar environments. It basically helps scientists understand how children develop language and speech by responding to the talk around them. The study also suggests that this method can also detect ce... |
20 July 2010
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According to new scientific data, it would appear that the genetic technique known as chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) is the most suitable method for detecting and identifying conditions pertaining to the autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The conclusion belongs to a comparative study of genetic methods for detec... |
15 March 2010
06:27 GMT |
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We've all been in situations in which the person we were talking to seemed oblivious to the fact that we looked sick and not in the mood, and just kept on ranting for hours on end. The ability to empathize – that is, to figure out what other people are feeling without them saying it, and to relate to their... |
17 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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Experts at the LENA Foundation have recently announced the development of a new device that can spot autism at a very early age. According to their press release, the machine is able to detect the disease in children as small as two years old, which is a progress from the 5.7 years usual methods take. It relies on id... |
15 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Autistic people are notoriously difficult to converse with, and scientists proposed bridging this divide with computers some time ago. But this has proven to be hard to do as well, mostly because of the large number of keys that sufferers have to use. To solve this problem, experts from the Project Blue Skies have cr... |
31 August 2009
08:49 GMT |
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In some instances, social interactions can prove to be very difficult for those suffering from autism, and a new study from the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, shows that this may be attributed to their poor ability to observe and process the body language of those in front of them. This leads patients to b... |
4 August 2009
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In a new scientific study, published in the prestigious journal Nature, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) expert Dr. Raynard Kington introduces the most compelling evidence to date that the underlying triggering factor of autism is a genetic one. Furthermore, the researcher points to a certain gene, which, if an... |
29 April 2009
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University of Bath researchers conclude in a new scientific study that some of the symptoms associated with autistic conditions such as the Asperger Syndrome (AS) may be associated with lower levels of the cortisol stress hormone in the human brain. UB Department of Psychology experts Dr. Mark Brosnan and Dr. Julie T... |
2 April 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Music has, apparently, other effects on the brain as well, besides making people able to discern between good and bad sounds. According to researchers at the Northwestern University (NWU), being subjected to the influence of music from an early age makes young musicians more able to detect even the slightest nuances ... |
4 March 2009
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Researchers in the UK have managed to discover that the condition know as synaesthesia, which makes sufferers experience a cross-over of perceptions in the presence of a single stimulus, is triggered by genetic factors. Furthermore, they have been able to also identify the general portion of DNA that is responsible f... |
6 February 2009
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According to a new scientific study, infants who are born prematurely have a much higher chance of developing autism during childhood than those born on term. Doctors say that the longer the baby remains in the mother's womb, the more the chances for the terrible disease decrease. For these results, scientists f... |
29 January 2009
06:28 GMT |
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We all know that brilliant minds are everywhere around us, and that, among those minds, there are some that stand out like a single star in the night sky. Unfortunately, many of these extremely bright and endowed scientists suffer from harsh forms of autism that do not allow them to communicate very well with the out... |
8 January 2009
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Johnson & Johnson was directly involved in funding a research clinic, aimed at testing the effects of its various drugs on children suffering from bipolar disorder and autism, new evidence shows. The Wall Street journal reported yesterday that the research center was located at Massachusetts General Hospital, as stat... |
25 November 2008
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Diagnosing autism is a challenging task for doctors, which is precisely why the average age for the discovery of the disease is about 3 years for children in the Untied States. These statistics are very concerning, as the affliction can be better treated if it's discovered early or even before it sets in. Recogn... |
7 November 2008
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It seems that not everything about Tarzan is a complete invention. Researchers at the University of Sussex discovered remarkable similarities between the way humans and gorillas use their body language to communicate their emotions. Facials expressions denote the exact feelings both species experience at the moment. ... |
20 October 2008
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The theory according to which we all have an inner genius waiting to be discovered has been addressed now by a team of scientists that built a device that affects the brain activity through a series of magnetic impulses. They are hoping to tap more of the brain's potential with their newly-developed cap.So far, ... |
30 September 2008
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