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A Case for Neurobiological Work-up in Autism
- Glenn Vatter |
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A Cognitive Theory of Pretense - by
Shaun Nichols, Department of Philosophy,
College of Charleston and Stephen Stich, Department of Philosophy and
Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University |
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preliminary study of individuals with autistic spectrum disorders in three
special hospitals in England by Dougal Julian Hare - Clinical
Psychologist, NAS; Judith Gould - Clinical Director, NAS; Richard Mills -
Director - NAS Services, and Lorna Wing - Consultant Psychiatrist, NAS.
*This work was carried out when working for the National Autistic Society
at the Centre for Social and Communication Disorders, Elliot House,
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A Taxpayer-Funded Clinical Trials Registry and Results Database
It already exists within the US Food and Drug Administration - Erick
H. Turner is a former clinical reviewer of psy-chotropic drugs at the United
States Food and Drug Administration. He is currently the medical director of
the Mood Disorders Program at the Portland Veteran Affairs Medical Center,
assistant professor of psychiatry, and assistant professor of pharmacology
and physiology at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon,
United States of America. E-mail:
turnere@ohsu.edu by Erick H. Turner
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Adding a chromosome may treat disease by NewScientist.com |
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Addressing the Interface Between Pediatrics and Psychiatry
- Shortly after completing my training in both pediatrics and
psychiatry, I spoke with a retired child and adolescent psychiatrist who had
invested his career in improving the relationship between pediatrics and
psychiatry. As I excitedly told him about plans to focus my own career on
the interface between the disciplines, he wistfully stared off into the
distance, then respectfully observed, "Hope springs eternal now, doesn't
it?" It is no accident that I continue to think of him often. A quick
MEDLINE search gives reason for despair--collaboration between pediatrics
and psychiatry has been a topic of interest, discussion and annoyance for
half a century, not only in the United States, but also in a host of
different countries and cultures. Parallel systems of care for pediatric
physical and mental health problems persist despite recommendations to
better integrate existing research-based knowledge into routine clinical
practice (e.g., U.S. Public Health Service, 2000). Yet despite several
"botched beginnings" between the disciplines and the imperfect nature of
existing knowledge and practice, there truly is reason for hope. Psychiatry
and its affiliated disciplines now offer a better product that is
increasingly relevant to the pediatricians and family physicians who are
being called on to manage youths with mental disorders in traditional
medical settings by John V. Campo, M.D. / Psychiatric
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Aerobics for the brain -
30 minutes of customized mental calisthenics
help students overcome theirlearning disabilities at a new Toronto
private school. LUMA MUHTADIE reports by LUMA MUHTADIE |
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Advances in diagnosis and treatment of autism, Alzheimer's, epilepsy,
fetal brain imaging - Neuroscience and radiology professionals
from around the globe demonstrate how imaging technology is key to
best practices in medicine by ErurekAlert |
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American Psychiatric Association Urges Caution, Research & Disclosure on
Antidepressants -
In oral and written testimony, the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
said today at a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing that caution,
additional research and full disclosure are needed with respect to a group
of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or
SSRIs. The APA also said that, because a significant minority of children
and adolescents with depression do not respond to an initial medication,
it is important for physicians and patients to have access to a full range
of medications to treat pediatric depression - an illness with significant
long-term consequences, including an increased risk for suicide.
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An Exciting Way to Raise Kids' IQs
- Quick! Sign your children up for weekly piano or voice lessons, and
in the space of just nine months their IQs may very well be higher. |
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An Introduction to the Medical Aspects of Autism |
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Aping Dr Dolittle /
A Japanese researcher reckons he will soon have monkeys communicating with
humans. And, Laura Spinney finds, it could reveal how language evolved. - In
a laboratory in Saitama, central Japan, monkeys are behaving strangely. If
someone sticks out a tongue, they do the same. If a person goes to unclip
the latch on a box, the monkeys follow suit. If they need a rake to reach a
piece of fruit, they ask for it with a special call. All of which is
confounding experts, because none of it should be possible. Monkeys in the
wild rarely ape, and as far as we know, they never, ever, ask for rakes by
the Guardian |
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Are we obsessed with sleep?
- The search for a good night's sleep has become an obsession. New
sleeping drugs have been developed, mattresses have been redesigned, and
the number of sleep clinics in the United States has jumped from 300 in
1995 to 900 in 2005. And it's not just adults that suffer from this
nighttime madness - teens, children and the elderly are sleep-deprived,
too. |
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Autism cases exaggerated by paediatricians by The World Today
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Autism gene discovered - Researchers at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine are first to strongly link a specific gene with autism. While
earlier studies have found rare genetic mutations in single families,
a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of
Psychiatry is the first to identify a gene that increases
susceptibility to autism in a broad population in Medical Science News |
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Autism May Result From Genetic Mish-Mash -
Complex Chains of Genetic Events May
Explain Autism Paradox. Autism results from a complex interplay
between genes and things that affect gene function, a new theory proposes by
Daniel Denoon |
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Autism Spectrum Disorders Outcome Study - Portland State
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Autism: Why Do Some Develop Then Regress?
- Most children with autism show developmental differences early in life,
usually involving their ability to communicate. But new University of
Michigan research examines the 20 to 40 percent of youngsters who appear to
develop communication skills, then regress. The largest known study of
its kind offers a host of new details on autism with regression, including a
link between regression and a family history of autoimmune thyroid disease,
an association with gastrointestinal symptoms and more findings offering a
better picture of autism's causes. Source: University Of Michigan
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Autistics' problem 'reading' faces not related to identifying them
... - people
with social developmental disorders like autism, the ability to
recognize a face may not be related to how well they process facial
expression as previously thought, a new study suggests. INDEPTH:
Autism
People with autism, Asperger's syndrome and other social-emotional
processing disorders have difficulty communicating and are akward at
interacting with others. Social skills such as judging whether a
listener is interested in a conversation may not develop properly.
Researchers in Canada and the U.S. studied whether the problems of
"reading" facial expressions in those with the disorders was linked to
problems interpreting emotions or assessing faces. By CBC News
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In Autism, Related Disorders, Recognizing Emotion Is Different
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In contrast to previous reports, for those with autism or Asperger’s
syndrome, recognizing facial expressions is separate from
identifying familiar faces, according to a study published in the
November 22, 2005, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the
American Academy of Neurology. Those who had an impaired ability to
process facial identity were no different than those with normal
facial identity ability, when it came to processing facial
expression. Led by researchers in the U.S. and Canada, the study
examined 26 adults diagnosed with either autism, Asperger’s
syndrome, social-emotional processing disorder, or both Asperger’s
and social-emotional processing disorder. The shared trait of these
disorders is social dysfunction. The individuals took a variety of
tests to measure famous face recognition, recognition of non-facial
emotional cues (from voices or bodies), recognition of basic
emotions (happy, sad, angry, fearful), and recognition of a complex
mental state (reflective, aghast, irritated, impatient) presented by
a pair of eyes. / Release |
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Babies at risk from stress in pregnancy / Mothers' anxiety levels linked
to autism and dyslexia. - An intriguing link between levels of anxiety in
pregnant women and the damaging effect on the brain of the unborn child will
be shown this week in a new study of ambidextrous children. Researchers have
discovered that women who are very anxious in the middle of their
pregnancies are significantly more likely to have a child who is
ambidextrous or 'mixed handed', a condition associated with autism, dyslexia
and hyperactivity. It is the first time scientists have found such a link,
and they believe it may be necessary for midwives to tackle mothers' stress
levels to reduce the effects on the foetus by Jo Revill |
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Babies'
sighs reboot brain - "A baby's sweet sighs may do more than endear it
to its parents, an international team of researchers says. Sighs may help
reset regular breathing patterns and help lungs to develop," by Reuters |
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Battling Insurers Over Autism Treatment
- It took Beverly Chase 14 months of fighting with her health plan, Cigna
Behavioral Health, to get payment for autism treatments for her 4-year-old
son, Jake. This, despite considerable leverage on her side: a state law in
Indiana, where she lives, requires insurers to pay for the behavioral
therapies that parents say can produce striking improvement in autistic
children. Cigna did not respond to her request for months, and later argued
that her son's therapist was not properly accredited. Even after the plan
agreed to contribute to the costs, Mrs. Chase, who lives in Avon, Ind., said
she still had to make $500 a month in co-payments by Milt Freudenheim
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Brain activity, including memory-processing, changes in Tourette
syndrome by Washington University School of Medicine |
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Brain can be trained to process sound in alternate way, study shows -
UCSF scientists have found that the brains of rats can be trained to learn
an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of sound. The
discovery, they say, has potential for the treatment of hearing loss,
autism, and other sensory disabilities in humans. It also gives clues, they
say, about the process of learning and the way we perceive the world. "We
addressed a very fundamental question," says Daniel B. Polley, PhD, lead
author of the study. "When we notice a sound getting louder, what happens in
our brain so that we know it's getting louder?" Polley is a postdoctoral
research fellow in the laboratory of senior author Michael M. Merzenich,
PhD, co-director of the Coleman Memorial Laboratory in the UCSF Keck Center
for Integrative Neuroscience and UCSF professor of otolaryngology. The
study was published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (November 16, 2004) by the
University of California - San Francisco /
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Brain scan findings 'throw new light on autism' - New Scientist
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Brains of people with autism recall letters of the alphabet in brain areas
dealing with shapes
/ Finding supports theory that autism results from failure of brain
areas to work together - In contrast to people who do not have autism,
people with autism remember letters of the alphabet in a part of the brain
that ordinarily processes shapes, according to a study from a collaborative
program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of
the National Institutes of Health. The study was conducted by researchers in
the NICHD Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism (CPEA) at the
University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. It supports a
theory by CPEA scientists that autism results from a failure of the various
parts of the brain to work together. In autism, the theory holds, these
distinct brain areas tend to work independently of each other. The theory
accounts for observations that while many people with autism excel at tasks
involving details, they have difficulty with more complex information./
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Breaking Down the Stereotypes of Science by Recruiting Young Scientists
- If you ask the average ten year old in America what a scientist looks
like, they almost always describe an older man with crazy white hair and a
lab coat. If you ask a group of adolescents how many have looked through a
microscope, few raise their hands. If you discuss the implications of
genetic research with a group of high school students, they're likely to
cut your next class. The reason why these students have such profound
stereotypes of scientists and are less than enthusiastic about science's
impact on society is simple—the lack of exposure they receive during their
pre-college education. According to a preliminary study conducted at
Leicester University in England, students are often repeatedly confronted
with stereotypes of science and scientists via television, cartoon, and
comic book characters as well as uninformed adults or peers (McDuffie
2001) by Jamie Schaefer, Steven A. Farber |
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Bridging Psychology and Mathematics: Can the Brain Understand the
Brain? by Mariano Sigman |
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Carnegie Mellon neuroscientist
develops tool to image brain
function at the cellular level by
Carnegie Mellon University
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Damaged Genes In Aging Human Brain Provide Clues To Cognitive Decline
by Children's Hospital, Boston |
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Depression drug studies show promise, Predix says - Predix
Pharmaceuticals Inc. has a potential treatment for anxiety and depression
that generated encouraging data from early-stage human clinical trials, the
Woburn company announced by Boston Business Journal |
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Detecting autism early a key - Sitting in a
small evaluation room at the University of Washington, with apprehension
written on her face, Christa Zamora turned her eyes toward her son Connor
and contemplated his future, by Anahad O'Connor |
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Diagnosing and coping with autism
- The clock on the wall reads five minutes to 4 p.m. as 3-year-old
Kaitlyn Lempert runs to her family's living room window asking, "Where's
Logie?" She has her answer about 10 minutes later when her 6-year-old
big brother steps off the school bus that stops in front of the
Lempert's home. "Sissy. Cuddle. Please," requests Logan Lempert before
his mother can help him take his coat off after he enters his home.
"See," his mother, Donna Lempert says. "Every day, it's the same thing |
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Disgust is good for you, shows study - New Scientist - "The
purpose of disgust has been quantitatively demonstrated for the first
time - it is an evolved response that protects people from disease or
harm." |
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EXPOSURE ANXIETY
AS PART OF TOURETTES ? by Donna Williams |
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Families share 'autistic traits'
/ Relatives of people with autism may display autistic
brain differences and behaviours despite not having the
condition themselves, a study shows. New Scientist says the work
could make it easier to spot families at risk of having an
autistic child. - It could also help in the quest to find
genetic and environmental triggers for the condition, experts
hope. Autism is a disorder that makes it hard for the individual
to relate socially and emotionally to others. / BBC News |
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Family Finds Hope In Holistic Medicine
- When Jacqueline Glover was two months old, she began having seizures, and
suffered through them for nearly two years before she began showing progress
after receiving alternative treatments, by Scott Nicholson |
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Finding the genius within, against the odds - "In his new book, "Burro
Genius" (Rayo, $24.95), the acclaimed author of the 1991 book "Rain of Gold"
uses his own experience as a Mexican-American child struggling with
undiagnosed dyslexia to condemn an educational system he says destroys our
natural genius," by Michelle Morgante |
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First ever population-based study of genetics of autism - PRNewswire
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FIVE genes can cause you depression!
- Five genes have reportedly been identified as being responsible for
a person's state of depression. Deakin University scientists separated
large families of Israeli sand rats for weeks to monitor their responses to
isolation and examined different aspects of their behaviour, including
grooming, social behaviour, the time they spent in the light or dark and how
much they would explore or simply sit in the corner by Web India 123.com |
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Florence drug company makes acquisition - "A Florence company that
specializes in developing medicine for children said today it has made an
acquisition that could lead to a new drug for autistic children with
intestinal ailments," by James McNair |
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Framework for systematically incorporating epigenetic information into
traditional genetic studies - "Scientists at Johns Hopkins are
calling for simultaneous evaluation of both genetic and epigenetic
information in the search to understand contributors to such common
diseases as cancer, heart disease and diabetes," by Medical Science
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Functional connectivity in an fMRI working memory task in high-functioning
autism by Hideya Koshino, Patricia A. Carpenter, Nancy J. Minshew,
Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Timothy A. Keller, Marcel Adam Just. Abstract:
An fMRI study was used to measure the brain activation of a group of adults
with highfunctioning autism compared to a Full Scale and Verbal IQ and
age-matched control group during an n-back working memory task with letters.
The behavioral results showed comparable performance, but the fMRI results
suggested that the normal controls might use verbal codes to perform the
task while the adults with autism might use visual codes. The control group
demonstrated more activation in the left than the right parietal regions,
whereas the autism group showed more right lateralized activation in the
prefrontal and parietal regions. The autism group also had more activation
than the control group in the posterior regions including inferior temporal
and occipital regions. The analysis of functional connectivity yielded
similar patterns for the two groups with different hemispheric correlations.
The temporal profile of the activity in the prefrontal regions was more
correlated with the left parietal regions for the control group, whereas it
was more correlated with the right parietal regions for the autism group.  Screen PDF (750K) |
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Gene Boosts Immune Memory - Provides target for increasing vaccine
effectiveness, fighting autoimmune diseases. A key gene required for
the development of immune system memory cells has been identified in what
could lead to more effective vaccines and new treatments for cancer, AIDS
and autoimmune disorders, by Gabe Romain |
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Genetic clues found for common congenital brain disorder - Thanks to a
productive collaboration between clinical and basic scientists, researchers
from the University of Chicago have identified the first genetic cause of
one of the most common birth defects of the brain, Dandy-Walker malformation
(DWM). Infants with this disorder, about one in 10,000 births, have a small,
displaced cerebellum and other brain abnormalities that can reduce
coordination, impair mental function and cause hydrocephalus. by
University of Chicago Medical Center / Public Release |
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Genetic
Factors in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Beth Rosen Sheidley, MS, CGC,
and Susan E. Folstein, MD |
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Genetics key to Autism -
There has been a great deal of speculation
about what causes autism in a child. Some reports suggest vaccines
could play a role, but new research disputes this claim. Now a new
report points to genetic factors as the main cause. |
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Genetic counseling advances
/ News from Boston's medical and scientific
community - As a growing number of
patients undergo tests to learn their genetic risk for diseases, Simmons
College and Brandeis University are preparing to offer New England's first
program in genetic counseling for people working in health care. The course,
to be offered over the Internet, will guide nurses, social workers, and
others through issues such as what to advise a couple whose first child has
a genetically inherited disease and who are deciding whether to risk having
another, by Scott Allen |
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Genes tied to brain disorders
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Federal scientists have
discovered a group of gene mutations that increase the activity of the brain
chemical serotonin and put people at risk for treatment-resistant obsessive
compulsive disorder, anorexia and Asperger's syndrome, a form of
high-functioning autism. These gene mutations actually make certain brain
systems more active, by Jamie Talan |
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GMC to Decide Fake Blood Test Doctor's Future
- Members of the
General Medical Council are expected to meet this week to discuss the future
of a GP jailed for faking blood test results to allay parents’ fears about
the effectiveness of separate measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) inoculations
his private clinic gave to toddlers. Dr David Pugh, 55, who was jailed
for nine months by a judge at Cambridge Crown Court in December, is the
subject of an inquiry by the GMC and is almost certain to be struck off, by
Brian Farmer - Scotland |
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Get to Know Your Self
Better by Stacy Lu |
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Home alone America is 75 percent right
- "...For years, the medical profession did a terrible injustice to women
whose children were autistic by blaming them for the condition. The
conventional wisdom was that "cold" and emotionally withholding mothers
caused the condition in children. We now know that this is nonsense. It's a
neurological problem. Eberstadt is doing the same with ADD. Some parents are
better able to handle a disabled child than others, but that does not mean
the disability is invented. So Eberstadt is 75 percent right in this
book. Three stars out of a possible four, By Mona Charen |
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Hormone linked to aggression
- New research with mice offers more evidence that a specific
hormone plays a major role in people's ability to take care of others
and avoid conflict. If the findings hold true for humans, scientists
might get one step closer to a treatment for people with autism because
they often lack an essential sense of empathy, researchers said. The
study, by a team of Japanese and American researchers, found that when
mice were genetically engineered to not process the hormone oxytocin,
the males became more aggressive and the females often forgot to take
care of their babies. |
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Hospital
Translation Rule Challenged - "Several doctors and a group supporting
English as the nation's official language filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a
Clinton-era executive order requiring federally funded hospitals, clinics and
doctors to offer translation services for patients who speak limited English,"
by ABC News |
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Head-Tilt Test Detects Asperger's Syndrome: Study
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drkoop.com -
A simple head movement test can help parents determine whether
their babies have a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome,
according to University of ... |
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Here's how your birth month can affect your health life! by
webindia123.com |
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How Brain Gives Special Resonance To Emotional Memories by Duke
University |
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Hunt for
Autism Genes to Be Led by Johns Hopkins Researchers -
"Autism is quite likely to result from the combined effects
of multiple, very subtle genetic changes that differ considerably from
family to family, since no single reliable genetic cause has been found
yet," says Aravinda Chakravarti, principal investigator of the project and
director of the
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Hopkins. "We'll be
looking for combinations of genetic mutations and extra or missing
gene copies that are much less common, even in the affected group,
than most scientists are used to considering. This is a huge
undertaking," by Joanna Downer / Johns
Hopkins Medicine |
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autism and related disorders, recognizing emotion is different
than identity - In contrast to previous reports,
for those with autism or Asperger's syndrome, recognizing facial
expressions is separate from identifying familiar faces. Those
who had an impaired ability to process facial identity were no
different than those with normal facial identity ability, when
it came to processing facial expression. Led by researchers in
the U.S. and Canada, the study, published in Neurology, examined
26 adults diagnosed with either autism, Asperger's syndrome,
social-emotional processing disorder, or both Asperger's and
social-emotional processing disorder. |
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Impact of Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Autistic Children
- The Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center is one of twelve
trial sites selected to participate in a research study to evaluate an
investigational medication for treatment of persistent gastrointestinal
(GI) dysfunction in autistic children. Up to fifty percent of children
with autism experience persistent GI problems, ranging from mild to
moderate degrees of inflammation in both the upper and lower intestinal
tract. |
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Implantable device designed to detect, stop seizures under study at MCG
- A small electronic device implanted in the skull that detects oncoming
seizures then delivers a brief electrical stimulus to
the brain to stop them is under study at the Medical College of Georgia by
Medical College of Georgia / Public Release |
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Increase in autism 'due to problems with births' - "A
LANDMARK study has found evidence linking the growing number of autism
cases among Irish children to problems at birth. The research, conducted
by Dr Alvaro Ramirez, a Nicaraguan doctor based in Ireland, claims that
the rising rate of autism is linked to a susceptibility to infection among
children who experience birth traumas either through difficult deliveries
or induced births," by
The Irish Independent |
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Increased
cases of autism probably due to improved awareness
- Over the past 20 years, there has been speculation about a connection
between immunizations and an increase in autism. However, a study by Mayo
Clinic researchers published in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics
and Adolescent Medicine suggests the increase may be due to improved
awareness, changes in diagnostic criteria and availability of services, not
environmental factors or immunizations. "This study is the first to measure
the incidence -- the occurrence of new cases -- of autism by applying
consistent, contemporary criteria for autism to a specific population over a
long period of time," says William Barbaresi, M.D., a Mayo Clinic
developmental pediatrician and one of the study authors. "In doing so, the
study accounts for improvements in the diagnostic criteria for autism, the
medical community's improved understanding of this disease and changes in
federal special education laws." by Medical News Today |
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In search of a cure for autism - Parents spend thousands on therapies
that claim to help autistic children live normal lives, but most of them
are unproven. Now doctors aim to find out what really works By Jane
Feinmann |
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Infants' movements can signal a form of autism by
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Just Give
them a Pill - ABC's and 123's- all across this nation our public schools
are reaping what we've so carelessly sown as parents. There are sixth
graders having sex before comprehension of consequences, and there are
seventh grade students lying in hospital beds after a Wednesday morning "cat
fight" at a local Jr. High School. We have first graders lashing out in
anger at their teachers, and we have police officers being called in because
fourth grade students are threatening their teachers with physical harm. Jr.
Highs are practicing lockdowns as routinely as fire drills. High Schools
have weapons and narcotic shakedowns on a regular basis to keep the students
under control. Almost every campus in America--from high school down to
grade school--have police officers patrolling their campuses, ticking their
walks to the beat of our school time clocks. America's children are
exploding emotionally. What are we as their parents going to do? by Kerry
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Key to detecting
Asperger’s syndrome, a milder yet little-understood form of autism,
lies in analyzing infants’ movements by News Medical Alert |
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Left side of brain activates speech from birth by University of
California - Los Angeles |
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LETTER: Tristan's Troops to walk to support
autism research
... Unfortunately, autism will always be a
part of his life. Tristan has a great sense of humor, but autism makes it
difficult for him to communicate clearly, by Cathy Papargiris
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Let
Courts Give Closure To Holocaust Victims
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Simon Rozenkier, a
veteran of the Korean War, is suing Bayer and Schering for
complicity in medical experiments performed on him by the Nazis.
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Live Talk: Improving the Brain
/ Dr. Daniel Amen joined us for a Live Talk on what he’s learned about
the brain and simple steps you can take to improve yours on Oct. 18. -
We all know that skipping sleep, smoking cigarettes and snacking on
sugary foods can be bad for our health. But clinical neuroscientist
Dr. Daniel Amen warns they can also be bad for our brain.
In his latest book, “Making a Good Brain Great” (Harmony), Amen
explains how bad eating and exercise habits, sleep deprivation and
stress can actually endanger or impede the brain’s ability to function.
The good news? By making small changes—like replacing fatty foods with
lean proteins and green leafy vegetables or finding ways to lower stress
levels—you can actually make your brain perform better. During the past
14 years, Amen has performed sophisticated brain-imaging scans on
thousands of patients to detect damage done from drugs or disorders, and
to help pinpoint problems that can be treated not just with medication
but with therapy and lifestyle changes. Join Amen at noon E.T., Tuesday,
Oct. 18, for a Live Talk on what he’s learned about the brain and simple
steps you can take to improve yours. - Newsweek
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Lifesaver program helps keep track of wanderers
- Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti waved a large antenna in the
selectmen's room of Town Hall during a recent visit as a beeping sound from
a small blue box slowly became louder. "As you get closer the beeping
increases and when you walk away, the sound gets dimmer and you have a
longer pause between beeps," said Bellotti, who was demonstrating Millis'
new tracking device that the members of the Millis Police Department hope
will help keep people in town with Alzheimer's disease, dementia and autism
from wandering away from home, by the Bellingham CountryGazette
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Long Trip for Psychedelic Drugs - Psychedelic drugs are inching their
way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States,
thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy
and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive
disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name just a few. The Heffter
Research Institute, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Studies and others have managed to persuade the Food and Drug Administration
to approve a handful of clinical trials using psychedelics. The movement
seems to be gaining ground in recent years. Since 2001, the FDA and the Drug
Enforcement Administration have given the go-ahead to three clinical trials
testing psychedelics on symptomatic patients, and several more are on deck
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Looking for fear? It's in your eyes!
/ Seeing someone else's wide eyes will spark the brain’s ‘Fear Central’
even before you know it. - "... Some evidence suggests that faulty
signaling by the amygdala may be involved in autism, a disorder that
affects, in part, verbal and nonverbal communication abilities. Likewise,
too much activity by this structure may play a role in anxiety disorders,
according to Paul Whalen of the University of Wisconsin at Madison," by
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Low birth weight big problem
- Wyoming mothers who fail to gain recommended
weight during pregnancy have a higher risk of giving birth to underweight
babies, according to research by Wyoming Department of Health
epidemiologists. The finding is consistent with an August 2000 report out of
Colorado and is important for Wyoming because both states are among the
highest rates of low birth-weight babies in the nation, particularly among
white women, officials said, by the AP
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Marijuana-like Chemicals in the Brain Calm Neurons, Say Stanford - From
the munchies to the giggles to paranoia, smoking marijuana causes widespread
changes in the brain. Now researchers at Stanford University School of
Medicine are a step closer to understanding how the drug's active
ingredients -- tetrahydrocannabinol and related compounds, called
cannabinoids -- may exert their effects. / Business Wire (press release)
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Medical Bias
- Medical Journal Editorial Bias Deceives Doctors, Leads
to Bad Medicine. This political bias ... is
forcing the dedicated practitioner into becoming little more than a
vaccine-toll booth operator." - by Mark Blaxill, director of SafeMinds -
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Medical Breakthrough - Life-Changing Autism Intervention
- The most recent statistics show as many as one in 200 children have
a condition that falls under the category of autism. There are many drugs
for the behavioral symptoms. But new research shows you may not need them,
instead a drug-free treatment can change lives, by News Channel 8 |
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Metabolic
biomarkers of increased oxidative stress and impaired methylation capacity
in children with autism by S Jill James, Paul Cutler, Stepan Melnyk,
Stefanie Jernigan, Laurette Janak, David W Gaylor and James A Neubrander
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences, and the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little
Rock, AR (SJJ, SM, and SJ); Niagara Falls, NY (PC); Colden, NY (LJ); Gaylor
and Associates, LLC, Eureka Springs, AR (DWG); and Edison, NJ (JAN)
Background: Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that usually
presents in early childhood and that is thought to be influenced by genetic
and environmental factors. Although abnormal metabolism of methionine and
homocysteine has been associated with other neurologic diseases, these
pathways have not been evaluated in persons with autism. [requires
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MEDICAL EXPERTS FACING SCRUTINY by Exeter |
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Memory drugs create new ethical minefield - "Move over, botox.
Although injections of the most potent natural toxin known to science are
marketed as knife-free plastic surgery to reduce wrinkles, Botox treatment
is actually a neurological intervention. The toxin blocks the release of a
neurochemical, acetylcholine, from neurons. That makes it the opening act
in what promises -- or threatens -- to be a significant new drama. Welcome
to "cosmetic neurology." Sure, there have been reports over the years of,
shall we say, recreational use of prescription pharmaceuticals. Some
musicians and nervous public speakers take beta blockers (a heart drug) to
vanquish stage fright. Modafinil (aka Provigil) is a stimulant approved
for narcolepsy, but it has an underground following among those who want
to feel as alert and rested after five hours of sleep as after eight.
Ritalin, for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, improves
concentration and the ability to plan, making it popular among healthy
adults who simply want an edge in multitasking," by Sharon Begley, The
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Memory mediation is studied
- Stanford University scientists say there are separate brain systems
mediating actual memory and whether people believe they will remember
something.Yun-Ching Kao and colleagues found activity in a brain region
called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex increases when subjects think
they will remember an item, even when it will actually be forgotten
later. Using a functional imaging study, subjects were scanned while
they predicted whether they would later remember scenes presented to
them. Outside the scanner, they saw these same scenes again, this time
intermixed with new ones, and had to indicate which scenes they had
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MGH study details brain changes in autism, language disorder -
Using advanced imaging technology, a research team based at
Massachusetts General Hospital has identified specific portions of the
brain's white matter that are abnormally large in children with autism
and developmental language disorder. |
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Music therapist hits all the right notes
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When Kennedy School fifth-graders present their holiday music
program next month, Cassie Wenger will be participating along
with the rest of her classmates. Cassie has cerebral palsy. She
doesn't talk or sing more than a word or two. She can't stand,
walk or crawl. But the 12-year-old can move her hands, so that's
how music therapist Jolene Nelson gets Cassie involved. |
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Nazis and medical ethics: Context and lessons /
The American Medical Association and U.S.
Holocaust Museum launch national series - The practice of medicine in
Nazi Germany still profoundly affects modern-day medical ethics codes,
according to Alan Wells, Ph.D., an expert in medical ethics with the
American Medical Association (AMA) and Patricia Heberer, Ph.D., historian
at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). To teach those lessons to the next
generation of physicians, the AMA and the USHMM announced plans today to
deliver a lecture series on the subject to medical schools around the
country by American Medical Association |
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Neocortical system abnormalities in autism
- An fMRI study of spatial working memory by B. Luna, PhD; N.J.
Minshew, MD; K.E. Garver, BA; N.A. Lazar, PhD; K.R. Thulborn, MD, PhD;
W.F. Eddy, PhD; and J.A. Sweeney, PhD
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New approach to interpreting brain electroencephalograms could help
understanding of epilepsy and autism - A team led by University of
California San Diego neurobiologists has developed a new approach to
interpreting brain electroencephalograms, or EEGs, that provides an
unprecedented view of thought in action and has the potential to
advance our understanding of disorders like epilepsy and autism in
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New genetic hypothesis for the cause of autism
- A mixed epigenetic and genetic and mixed de novo and inherited model
may explain most cases of autism. Researchers have proposed a new
hypothesis on the cause of autism, suggesting a mixed epigenetic and
genetic and mixed de novo and inherited (MEGDI) model. Their hypothesis,
and evidence to support it, will be published September 8, 2004 in the
online edition of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, and
will be available via Wiley InterScience at
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ajm.com
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New treatment for Autism
- Some parents in Connecticut say there is new hope for
children with Autism. Autism is the most common developmental disorder
in America. These mothers and fathers say their children have been
transformed. But Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Steve Bunnell tells
us that researchers in our state insist there is still no quick fix or
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Trials End Parents' Hopes for Autism Drug by ANDREW POLLACK
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Núñez names two to stem-cell panels
- Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez on Friday named an autism group's
founder to the committee that will oversee the state's new stem-cell
research program and picked a former teachers union official from Fair Oaks
to serve on its financial accountability panel. He appointed Jonathan
Shestack, a Los Angeles producer who founded Cure Autism Now, to an
eight-year term on the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee, by Laura
Mecoy |
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One dose of 'designer' gene therapy may target specific
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Pain may start in the brain - Medically unexplained pain, such as
lower back pain, might begin in the brain and was not simply imagined by
the sufferer. Thousands of people in the UK are believed to suffer pain in
different parts of the body which, despite numerous tests and often costly
investigations, cannot be explained by doctors by One News |
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Part of Brain That Extinguishes Fears Found - "The areas of the brain
involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies
the areas involved in extinguishing those fears. "We have been able to
identify neural circuits of extinction learning in humans," said study
author Elizabeth Phelps, an associate professor of psychology and neural
science from New York University. "This is important, because extinction is
a model we can use to look at how we get rid of fears we have learned," by
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Perlegen to Seek Genetic Basis of Autism with Grant from National Institute
of Mental Health; Autism Genetic Resource Exchange To Provide Genetic
Material for Study - "Perlegen will utilize DNA samples collected by the
Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), the world's largest publicly
available gene bank for autism research. Founded in 1997 by Cure Autism Now,
AGRE has collected important genetic material from over 500 families with
two or more children with autism. Cure Autism Now pioneered the concept of
data sharing and collaboration which is now largely accepted by the autism
community. Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD, who serves as AGRE's Chief Scientific
Advisor and Director of the Neurogenetics Program at UCLA, will act as an
advisor for the study," by Business Wire |
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Autism Spectrum Disorders - Author: James Robert Brasic, MD, MPH,
Fellow, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Russell H Morgan Department of
Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. Coauthor(s): Dean Wong, MD, PhD, Vice Chair of
Research, Professor, Departments of Radiology, Psychiatry, and
Environmental Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Oncology Center;
Aylin Eroglu, MD, Specialist in Nuclear Medicine, Department of
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Pills and kids may not mix Anxiety over SSRIs. Five Canadian
deaths could be among 100 adverse reactions involving children by
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Plot to axe allowances for 35,000 carers of disabled - ""One
of the qualifications relates to people with Asperger (whatever that is).
I vaguely recall something a while ago which suggested there is
controversy over whether Asperger should be considered as autism. We
should have a knowledge of this and a line to peddle on Saturday," by
Jonathan Porter and Michael McKinnon |
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Prenatal factors may play a role in autism - new study published
online June 8 in the Nature publication, Molecular Psychiatry,
indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury
preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead
to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease
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Psychologists glimpse biological imprint of childhood neglect
- The absence of a loving caregiver in the earliest years of life could
sway the normal activity of two hormones - vasopressin and oxytocin -
that play an essential role in the ability to form healthy social bonds
and emotional intimacy. Announced by psychologists at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, the new finding demonstrates for the first time that
severe neglect and social isolation can directly affect a young child's
neurobiology in ways that potentially influence emotional behaviors. The
work is reported online in the Nov. 21, 2005 Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. "Questions about how children regulate emotions and
form social bonds has not really made contact with recent advances in
the neurosciences," says senior author Seth Pollak, a UW-Madison
professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics and researcher at the
Waisman Center for Human Development. "But this work makes a link
between complex emotional behaviors and the developing brain." / Release
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cures must end' - A new charity has pledged to stamp out "quack"
interventions for people with autism and similar disorders by BBC News |
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Raising awareness Norwell man lobbies Washington for autism research
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Reading Your Baby's Mind
/ New research on infants finally begins to answer the question:
what's going on in there? - Little Victoria Bateman is blond and
blue-eyed and as cute a baby as there ever was. At 6 months, she is also
trusting and unsuspecting, which is a good thing, because otherwise
she'd never go along with what's about to happen. It's a blistering June
afternoon in Lubbock, Texas, and inside the Human Sciences lab at Texas
Tech University, Victoria's mother is settling her daughter into a high
chair, where she is the latest subject in an ongoing experiment aimed at
understanding the way babies think. Sybil Hart, an associate professor
of human development and leader of the study, trains video cameras on
mother and daughter. Everything is set. Hart hands Cheryl Bateman a
children's book, "Elmo Pops In," and instructs her to engross herself in
its pages. "Just have a conversation with me about the book," Hart tells
her. "The most important thing is, do not look at [Victoria.]" As the
two women chat, Victoria looks around the room, impassive and a little
bored. - News Week |
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Real-time window into ‘living’ brain - You can now get a live demo of
how your brain functions as a University of Florida scientist has grown a
living “brain” that can fly a simulated plane, thus giving scientists a
novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network. The “brain”,
created by Thomas DeMarse, professor of biomedical engineering, is a
collection of 25,000 nerve cells, taken from a rat’s brain and cultured
inside a glass dish and gives scientists a unique real-time window into
the brain at the cellular level by Hindustan Times.com |
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Rejection a Real Pain, Brain Study Shows - "It seems the old adage
about sticks, stones and hurtful words may need some revision.
According to a report published today in the journal Science,
social rejection elicits a similar brain response as physical pain
does," by Sarah Graham |
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Rise in autism 'due to way doctors diagnose behavioural disorders' by
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Rx4NJ Launched! -
"Rx4NJ," a new statewide program aimed at providing access to free and
discounted prescription drugs for eligible New Jerseyans, was launched today
by a broad coalition of healthcare groups, patient advocacy organizations,
and pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, by PRNewswire / Press
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Saving herself for
real: 'Terminator' actress goes public with bipolar disorder -
"Terminator" fans know Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor -- tough as nails
and out to save the world. But in real life, Hamilton was having trouble
saving herself. In an exclusive interview with AP Radio, Hamilton revealed
that she's bipolar. She has struggled with depression most of her life and
was a compulsive eater as a child. She knew something was wrong, but she
didn't know what. For 20 years, she tried different therapies and
treatments in a desperate search for answers. She was finally diagnosed 10
years ago. Once she got her illness under control, she decided to talk
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Scans uncover clues to cause of autism - Special MRI scans
of people with autism have confirmed what researchers have suspected: Their
brains are wired differently. A study funded by the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development found that people with autism remember
letters using a part of the brain normally used to remember shapes. It
also found that the different areas of their brains do not work in
synchronized fashion. |
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Scientists finding direct links between smell, brain and its emotions
- "Specific
odors can trigger a flood of memories. Psychologists call it the "Proustian
phenomenon," after French novelist Marcel Proust. Near the beginning of
the masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time," Proust's narrator dunks a
madeleine cookie into a cup of tea - and the scent and taste unleash a
torrent of childhood memories for 3,000 pages," by ALEXANDRA WITZE |
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Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Autism - Scientists Identify
Gene That May Raise Child's Rick of Autism by Twofold or More by the
Associated Press |
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Scientists study how the brain remembers, forgets - "After decades of
studying how memory works, scientists are trying to figure out how we
forget," by Robert S. Boyd |
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Scientists suggest autism involves more than genes -
Scientists and
their colleagues have proposed a new explanation for what causes autism, a
neurological disorder that affects about one in 1,000 children, While
many researchers believe inheritance of faulty genes is at autism's root,
the new idea suggests that the cause is more complex. Errors in genes may
combine with so-called "epigenetic" errors, and either may be inherited or
occur for the first time in the affected child, said Dr. Art Beaudet, a
geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Epigenetic errors cause
cells to use genes abnormally, but are distinct from errors in genes
themselves," by SUE GOETINCK AMBROSE |
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Scientists unlock genetic secrets of Angelman syndrome -
Nearly 40 years after the syndrome was first described to skeptical
doctors, scientists know what causes the rare and devastating
developmental disorder. And by studying it, researchers have stumbled on
new insights into a number of similar genetic diseases, as well as autism
and epilepsy by William Hathaway |
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Sheep like smiles say researchers by BBC News |
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Signs
of depression not always obvious -
For many people, feelings of sadness, hopelessness or fatigue could be
symptoms of depression, an illness that most often can be successfully
treated. Darwin Anderson, a psychologist at Crossroads Counseling Center,
321 W. Third St., who will be helping with a free depression screening at
Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center this week, said depression affects how
people view things by Joe Noga |
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Stanford Researcher's Findings May Shed Light on Common, Deadly Birth Defect
- "Now for the first time, researchers at the Stanford University
School of Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco have
provided a powerful example of how one genetic pathway can wend its way
through an emerging "city" of brain structures and facial features,
influencing each phase of development in slightly different ways.
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Stages of Memory described in new study by Beth Israel Deaconess
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State Constitution prevents universities' profits - Arizona universities
are collaborating with the Southwest Autism & Research Center and the
Translational Genomics Research Institute to conduct a comprehensive genetic
and molecular study to find the cause of autism," by Chip Scutari |
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Strange movements may signal
autism by NewScientist.com news
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Strategies for pharmacologic treatment of high
functioning autism and Asperger syndrome by Towbin KE
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Study: Autistic children struggle to protect selves from toxic metals -
A new study sheds light on the mystery of autism and may point the way to a
promising treatment.
Some autistic children have a weakened ability to protect themselves from
toxic metals in their bodies, a biochemist at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences has concluded by Sandy Kleffman |
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Study: Birth season, schizophrenia type linked - Schizophrenics born
during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere tend to develop a more severe
form of the mental illness than those born during the winter, a study said
Monday. An analysis of nearly 1,600 people with schizophrenia from six
countries in that hemisphere found an association between June and July
births and cases of "deficit" schizophrenia, which is characterized by an
inability to experience pleasure, antisocial behavior and blunted speech
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Studying a disease, finding clues to others -
"Studying abnormalities on
chromosome 15 also has led scientists to the genetic origin of one form of
autism, long sought by researchers. While genetic causes of most forms of
autism remain elusive, Angelman gave scientists a view about how such links
might work. As many as 3 percent of people with autism also have an Angelman
deletion, but with this twist: They carry an extra chromosome 15, according
to Dr. N. Carolyn Schanen, a geneticist at the University of Delaware. "This
research might be broadened to help understand the molecular underpinnings
of autism," she said," by William Hathaway |
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Study: Brain is atypical in
autistic boys - The research does
not reveal the cause of the
anomalies. By Dorsey Griffith |
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'Super mice' lead science charge - "Local scientists are breeding
super mice in the race to be first to find new treatments for Alzheimer's,
stroke, depression and other brain disorders. Scientists hope the
genetically altered mice will help them discover ways of slowing or
halting the onset of neurological disorders, which affect 75 per cent of
Australians at some stage of their lives," by the Sun Herald |
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Swing test could spot Asperger's in babies by
Roger Highfield, Science Editor |
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The challenge of adolescents and adults with Asperger syndrome
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THE DAREDEVIL BOY WHO CAN FEEL NO PAIN
- A boy from Tynedale is living with a rare condition that stops
him from feeling any pain. Thirteen-year-old Simon Grant, from Heddon,
suffers from a rare sensory dysfunction, which means that even broken
bones do not faze him. His mother, Jan believes the condition is the
result of inoculations he received when he was eight weeks old. Because
he has lived with the condition all his life, Simon now has no sense of
danger, as he does not associate injury with pain. And this has given
him a love of dangerous sports, including, horse riding, shooting, and
motorbike trailing. In his short life Simon has broken numerous bones
and had over 100 X-rays. He also suffers from mild, autism, a poor
immune system, and low muscle tone. By SOPHIE DOUGHTY |
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The link between autism and skills such as engineering, maths,
physics, and computing; A reply to Jarrold and Routh by Sally
Wheelwright & Simon Baron-Cohen
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The mystery of autism / Tracking down the culprit
behind this baffling disease. - Neurologists and parents
desperately want to unlock the mystery of autism, a brain disorder that
strikes as many as 5 of every 1,000 children and causes difficulty in
communication, socialization, and learning. Numerous theories have been
offered to explain the baffling disease, including genetic causes,
environmental factors, and an attack on the brain by an immune system gone
haywire. While there is evidence of a hereditary link, the disease is
increasing quickly enough to suggest other factors are also involved, so
scientists are busy studying those possibilities. (The scientific studies
looking at vaccination as a potential cause have largely discounted this
theory.) By Katherine Hobson |
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They just can't help it. Do you have a male or female brain? by Simon
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Treating Autism More Effectively -
According to a recent study researchers say
autistic boys with language problems might have a lot in common with boys
suffering from a language-related disorder known as Specific Language
Impairment (SLI) and they feel that these findings could help specialists
better understand autism and how to choose the best treatments for
individual components of the condition. Researchers used MRI scans to
look at Broca’s area -- a key language center in the brain -- in autistic
boys with language problems, autistic boys without language problems, boys
with SLI, and normal boys. Normally, Broca’s area will be larger on the
side of the brain opposite from the person’s handedness. In other words,
right-handed people generally have larger Broca’s areas on the left side
of the brain. All of the boys in this study were right-handed. Results
showed boys with SLI and autistic boys with language problems both had
larger Broca’s areas on the right side of the brain instead of the left
side. Autistic boys without language problems and normal boys had larger
Broca’s areas on the left side of the brain. Thus researchers believe
their findings would shed new light on autism and the notion that autism
might be more a collection of related disorders with overlapping symptoms
than a single disorder by Medindia Breakthrough In Focus |
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Trends in Diagnosis Rates for Autism and ADHD at Hospital Discharge in the
Context of Other Psychiatric Diagnoses -
Concerns have been raised over observed
increases in the number of children who are given a diagnosis of
a neurodevelopmental disorder. The goal of this study was to
examine trends by age and calendar year in the diagnosis of two
of these disorders, autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), in the context of other psychiatric disorders in
a sample of hospitalized children, by
David S. Mandell, Sc.D.,
William W. Thompson, Ph.D., Eric S. Weintraub, M.P.H.,
Frank DeStefano, M.D., M.P.H. and Michael B. Blank, Ph.D.
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UCLA
neurological researcher dies at age 35 - "A
specialist in gene analysis and praised for his friendliness and sense of
humor, Zheng Luo, staff research associate in the UCLA Department of
Neurology, died July 28 of a liver abscess. He was 35," by Daniel Miller |
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UK
report claims environmental factors likely cause of brain disease - A
new report from the United Kingdom today shows an alarming increase in the
number of deaths linked to brain disease, particularly in women. The report
published in the journal Public Health states that environmental factors are
the likely cause of the increase in the number of people suffering from
diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's by Brigid Glanville |
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Unraveling Autism - Part II. Research
Findings and Directions by Shelley Wu, Ph.D. |
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Use of Antipsychotics Doubles for Low-Income Kids - "The
use of antipsychotic drugs among low-income children in Tennessee nearly
doubled between 1996 and 2001, a new study finds," by Amanda Gardner |
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Utah kids in autism project -
International genome base: The study
will try to pinpoint the mutation
factors in the hereditary disorder
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Video Can Detect a Form of Autism - "Two University of Florida
researchers have discovered that when it comes to one form of autism,
called Asperger's syndrome, the camera may reveal what even a child's
parents fail to see. Home videos of an infant's movements can be used to
detect Asperger's, a milder yet poorly understood form of autism, years
earlier than the disorder is typically identified, according to Osnat and
Philip Teitelbaum," by Diane Chun |
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Virtual Clinic Will Offer Solution to $25 Billion
Autism Crisis - As the incidence of autism grows to
epidemic proportions, a Canadian woman has enlisted technology and people to
wage war on autism with an innovative approach. Her solution will bring
training and intervention guidance directly into the homes of those in
desperate need of a new solution. - “Worldwide, 1 in 250 children are
born with autism each year,” said Cynthia Howroyd, President and CEO of
Virtual Expert Clinics (VEC). “It was 1 in 10,000 thirty years ago, and the
problem is doubling every two years. Costs in North America alone are a
staggering $25 billion annually and timely, quality services are still out
of reach for many families. With personal experience herself as a
clinical therapist in autism intervention, Ms. Howroyd has combined a
powerful set of digital tools and a team of world-class experts to offer an
innovative approach that promises to revolutionize autism service delivery
and make it universally accessible." by PRWEB / Press Release |
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Virtual reality lab yields data at St. Anselm - "A high-tech virtual
reality lab, tucked behind the brick walls at St. Anselm College and
away from the quiet calm of a campus on vacation, remained abuzz this
summer with psychology students and professors continuing research on
Attention Deficit Disorder. |
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Warnings over anti-depressants spark praise, concerns - Antidepressants
have a valuable role in the treatment of children, several doctors said
yesterday. Most interviewed expressed concern that a Food and Drug
Administration panel's recommendation -- that such drugs bear a label
warning of increased risk of suicidal thought and behavior -- might
discourage use of the drugs for children already at risk by Jamie Talan |
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Workshop Teaches Simple Movement
Techniques That Switch on Learning
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Wyeth Comments
on FDA Joint Advisory Committee Antidepressant Safety Recommendation for
Pediatric Population /
Wyeth Commits to Work With FDA to Develop Appropriate
Warnings for Pediatric Use - Press Release |
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"I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical.
Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin."
~ Jerry Newport