Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children. Results of their study appear online and in the...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children. Results of their study appear online and in the...
A UC Davis MIND Institute researcher has been awarded a grant by Autism Speaks to investigate the digestive and intestinal problems often experienced by children with autism and that affect their ability to learn and communicate. Paul Ashwood, associate professor of medical microbiology and...
A new study found that treatment-resistant epilepsy (TRE) is common in idiopathic autism. Early age at the onset of seizures and delayed global development were associated with a higher frequency of resistance to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Full findings appear online in Epilepsia, a journal...
The ability to find shoes in the bedroom, apples in a supermarket, or a favourite animal at the zoo is impaired among children with autism, according to new research from the University of Bristol. Contrary to previous studies, which show that children with autism often demonstrate outstanding...
doesn't understand jokes any? more complicated, is generally in their own world, believes in fairies, and cannot join in normal conversations because they cannot understand what is being said to them...they just look vacant all the time
New data show that many children with autism spectrum disorders have greater academic abilities than previously thought. In a study by researchers at the University of Washington, 90 percent of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders showed a discrepancy between their IQ score...
Autism was described as early as 1940, but a marked increase in the prevalence for the broader class of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) during the past decade highlights the demand for treatment of affected individuals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the...
A baby with neonatal jaundice, meaning jaundice within a few days or weeks of being born, has a higher risk of being diagnosed with autism or some other psychological development disorder later on in life compared to infants who did not have neonatal jaundice, Danish researchers report in an...
My son is five and a half months old. He is generally a happy little baby. He is makes good eye contact, and tracks people as they move about the room. He smiles often at people, usually in response to their voice or smile, and laughs although not as often as he smiles. He babbles a lot, but...
A new study has found no association between infant and prenatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative used in a number of vaccines, and autism. In an article published in the medical journal Pediatrics, the authors wrote that thimerosal in vaccines "does not increase the...
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, has identified misfolding and other molecular anomalies in a key brain protein associated with autism spectrum disorders...
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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...
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. Paul, the Company's President & Chief Executive Officer, was selected to...
Hey, so I’m 27 years old, all my life I had problems with learning, nothing really interests me. I use to fall asleep when I had to read something. Sometimes I feel like I can’t express my feelings, thoughts in words. I never been any good in math, I remember taking extra classes back home...
If anyone has any advice on how to deal with thank you in advance. I don't want to leave him as I love him very much and it's the last thing I want to do but, its getting to much for me.
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...
Deciphering the functions of multiple rare genes may be at the core of understanding the genetic factors that cause autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), according to a new study published June 9 in the journal Nature by dozens of top autism researchers around the world, including Yale Child Study...