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Mental Illness Suspect Genes Found To Be Among The Most Environmentally Responsive By NIH Study
For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally...
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Hyperconnectivity In Brain's Hearing Center Caused By Gene Mutation In Autism
New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) might help explain how a gene mutation found ...
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Britain's First Adult Autism Survey Reveals Previously 'Invisible' Group With Autism
New research on autism in adults has shown that adults with a more severe learning disability have a...
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Evolved, Mutated Gene Module Linked To Syndromic Autism
A team led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports that...
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Family History Of Psychiatric Disorders May Shape Intellectual Interests
A hallmark of the individual is the cultivation of personal interests, but for some people, their in...
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Sign Of Autism Can Be Seen In Infants
A recent study that took place at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, Univers...
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An Earlier Sign Of Autism In The Brain
In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain re...
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Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A ne...
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People With Autism Helped By Learning To 'Talk Things Through In Your Head'
Teaching children with autism to 'talk things through in their head' may help them to solve complex ...
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Researchers Study Impact Of Proposed Autism Diagnostic Criteria
Getting an autism diagnosis could be more difficult in 2013 when a revised diagnostic definition goe...
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Autism Overdiagnosed? Possibly, Because Many Children Seem To "Outgrow" It
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) come with several neurodevelopmental signs and symptoms which overla...
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New Research Suggests Birth Weight Plays A Role In Autism Spectrum Disorder
Although the genetic basis of autism is now well established, a growing body of research also sugges...
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Invention Makes Children Eye Exams Inexpensive, Comprehensive, And Simple To Administer
Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of chil...
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Automated Imaging Inroduced To Greatly Speed Whole-Brain Mapping Efforts
A new technology developed by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) transforms the...
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Researchers Use Workshops To Teach Job Skills And Learn More About Families With Children On The Autism Spectrum
These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of autism, but researchers at the University of Utah ha...
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Gastrointestinal Problems In Autistic Children May Be Due To Gut Bacteria
The underlying reason autism is often associated with gastrointestinal problems is an unknown, but n...
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When Teens With Autism Want To Drive
In the first study to investigate driving as it relates to teens with a high-functioning autism diso...
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2 Genes Affect Anxiety, Behavior In Mice With Too Much MeCP2
The anxiety and behavioral issues associated with excess MeCP2 protein result from overexpression of...
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Pioneering Vision Study In Mice Will Help Revolutionize The Study Of Brain Function And Mental Disease
There's a 3-D world in our brains. It's a landscape that mimics the outside world, where the objects...
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Possible Link Between Autism, Abnormal Immune System Characteristics And Novel Protein Fragment
Immune system abnormalities that mimic those seen with autism spectrum disorders have been linked to...
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Complementary Image Processing In The Cerebral Hemispheres
The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laur...
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Catalyzing Autism Research At MIT - $26.5 Million Simons Gift
The Simons Foundation has given the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a $26.5 million gift...
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Seizure Damage Reversed In Rats By Inhibitory Drug Targeting Neurologic Pathways
About half of newborns who have seizures go on to have long-term intellectual and memory deficits an...
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Exciting Strides In Autism Research
Teaching young children with autism to imitate others may improve a broader range of social skills, ...
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Patients With A Rare Condition Associated With Autism Found To Have Altered Nerve-Fiber Pathways
It's still unclear what's different in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), b...
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