The preliminary study found that measures of hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity dropped by 56.4 percent in the patient group with high scores of ADHD, while by 66.3 percent in the group with low symptomatic signs 48 hours after the session with Empowered Brain. In the framework of the clinical trial, children, adolescents and young adults with...
Tag: <span>Autism</span>
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New study examines prescribing antipsychotic medication for children with autism
A new study by Swansea University has suggested that children with intellectual difficulty or autism are more likely to be given antipsychotic medication from a younger age than those without intellectual disability and have higher rates of hospitalization for depression and for injury and also are at risk of other medical side effects. Antipsychotic medication...
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Could new drug make a difference for kids with autism?
Fifteen-year-old Marshall Scarpulla is one of three children in his family with autism. His mother, Alissa Scarpulla, said she noticed some of the signs when he was 3 years old. “He was having a speech delay and the school brought it to my attention, too,” she told CBS News. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
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Researchers Link Defects in a Nuclear Receptor in the Brain to Autism Spectrum Disorders
Two University of Houston scientists are reporting that defects in a portion of the brain’s hippocampus, called the dentate gyrus, is regulated by the nuclear receptor LXRβ (Liver X receptor Beta). The dentate gyrus, or DG, is responsible for emotion and memory and is known to be involved in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Margaret Warner,...
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Hope for autism: Optogenetics shines light on social interactions
IMAGE: FROM LEFT: HEEJAE JANG, MALAVIKA MURUGAN, ILANA WITTEN AND THEIR COLLEAGUES HAVE IDENTIFIED A NEURAL SUBSTRATE FOR SOCIAL LEARNING IN MICE, WITH POSSIBLE RELEVANCE TO DISORDERS SUCH AS AUTISM. Ilana Witten didn’t set out to study spatial learning. She thought she was investigating how mice socialize–but she discovered that in mouse brains, the social...
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Autism treatments may restore brain connections
The diagram above illustrates how the absence or presence of the KCTD13 gene affects the ability of neurons to communicate. When the gene is absent, the protein RhoA proliferates and reduces connections between neurons by half. A drug that …more Scientists have identified a pair of treatments that may restore brain function to autism patients...
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Inflamed Support Cells Appear to Contribute to Some Kinds of Autism
But researchers found that when glia cells were normal, they “rescued” autistic neurons in culture, causing the latter to behave normally Modeling the interplay between neurons and astrocytes derived from children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, say innate inflammation in the...
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Blood-based epigenetic research may hold clues to autism biology, study suggests
Researchers mine epigenetic data to reveal immune-response pathways that might prove critical to understanding autism Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and...
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How coping mechanisms help autistic people
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham was diagnosed with Asperger’s in his 40s. In a recent documentary, naturalist and wildlife presenter, Chris Packham, talked about having Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. It was a rare snapshot into the life of an adult with Asperger’s – and especially so as Packham only realised this in his 40s....
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Genetic body/brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism
For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes — fam57ba and doc2a — in zebrafish and certain brain and body traits, such as seizures, hyperactivity, enlarged head size, and obesity. “Finding the molecular connections between a brain and a body phenotype is indeed really paradigm shifting,”...