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The study is believed to be the largest of its kind, was conducted by the Baby Siblings Research Consortum, a network of researchers at several universities throughout the U.S., and was published in the journal Pediatrics.
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Science is one step closer to understanding how the brains of individuals with autism process information. Over the past decade it became clear that neural communication is disrupted in autism, although the details, and the causes, remained elusive. Two hypotheses emerged to explain the information
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About 40 percent of children who had been diagnosed with autism or who were later diagnosed with autism spent more than half of the time staring at the geometric patterns, while only one (less than 2 percent) of the typically developing toddlers preferred the geometric patterns.
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47% of mothers of autistic children reported infertility. Other research has suggested that older women have a greater risk of having a child with autism and this ties in with the infertility issue as older women are also more likely to experience infertility or delay in getting pregnant.
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Biologists often try to understand a particular disorder from the perspective of a particular cell, or cell structure. This was an idea behind a recent public talk, “The Autism Spectrum: Recent Scientific Advances”, by UC Irvine (UCI) medical geneticist Dr. John Jay Gargus. The link between autis
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New studies that appear online in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, probe the daily experiences of mothers of adolescent and adult children with autism. The researchers measured levels of maternal cortisol, a hormone released by the adrenal gland in response to stress.
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Scientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, co-authors of the upcoming book “Neuro Magic,” are seeking funding to begin research that they hope will use magic as a tool for the diagnosis and treatment of autism — despite some parents’ fear that such research is too limited in scope.
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South Australian scientists have embarked on a new research program looking at whether DNA damage is greater in children with autism than in children without autism.
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