by Stanford University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Brain organization differs between boys and girls with autism, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The differences, identified by analyzing hundreds of brain scans with artificial intelligence techniques, were unique to autism and not found in typically developing boys and girls. The...
by Tamara May, Carol A. Adams, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Being autistic, but not diagnosed, can lead to a lifetime of struggles and being misunderstood for women. This issue has been highlighted in the last few years by celebrity women including Hannah Gadsby, Daryl Hannah, British reality star Christine McGuinness and former Australian of the year Grace Tame. By talking...
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY IMAGE: PROF. DANIEL OFFEN CREDIT: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Ph.D. student Shani Poleg and Prof. Daniel Offen of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, have successfully treated autism in animal models with medical cannabis oil. The researchers found that...
by Mike McNulty, University of Southern California Figure modified from Mayer [9] depicting diversity and abundance of gut microbes across the lifespan of a human. Early and late periods of low diversity coincide with vulnerability to neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative disorders, respectively. IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Credit: DOI: 10.3390/nu13124497 A new scoping review of...
Fragile X syndrome, or FXS, a leading genetic cause of autism, affects around one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females. Its symptoms include increased anxiety, intellectual disability, repetitive behaviors, social communication deficits, and abnormal sensory processing. People living with FXS generally lack the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene, or Fmr1, in their brain cells....
By LINDSEY TANNER FILE – A student arrives as the sun rises during the first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 at Freeman Elementary School in Flint, Mich. New autism numbers released Thursday, Dec. 2 suggest more U.S. children are being diagnosed with the developmental condition and at younger ages. (Jake May/The Flint...
by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The potential benefits of early diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is at the heart of an ongoing debate about the necessity of universal screening for toddlers and the amount of funding that is allocated to facilitate early identification. Now, a new study by...
Stewart Campbell, Axial TherapeuticsOctober 13, 2021 07:20 AM EDTUpdated 07:36 AM FinancingTreating autism through the gut? Axial Therapeutics refuels on its exploration of the gut-brain axisNicole DeFeudisEditorIf Stewart Campbell had said five years ago that you could treat conditions of the brain through the gut, you probably would have thought he was crazy — or...
by Edith Cowan University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New Western Australian research is using high-tech 3D facial scans to give us a better understanding of the genetic causes of autism. Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) used sophisticated machine learning techniques to analyze 5000 points on faces to measure facial asymmetry in parents of children on the autism spectrum. The research team from ECU,...
by Purdue University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Autism affects about 2% of children in the United States, and about 30% of these children have seizures. Recent large-scale genetic studies have revealed that genetic variants in a sodium channel, called voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.2, are a leading cause of autism. Overactive sodium channels in the neuron cause...
