by Anna Gotskind, Duke University School of Nursing Credit: Duke University Autism spectrum disorder can be detected as early as six to twelve months old and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children be screened between twelve and eighteen months of age. But most diagnoses happen after the age of 4, and later detection makes...
by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain One of the biggest longitudinal research studies of its kind in the world led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests that positive outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more common than...
UNIVERSITY OF BATH Reporting in the Lancet Psychiatry today, psychologists at the University of Bath highlight that a widely used technique for autism screening is being misused, which may have prevented many people from receiving an autism diagnosis over the past decade. When individuals with suspected autism are assessed by a GP, a decision to refer them...
by University of Michigan Credit: University of Michigan Young adults with autism spectrum disorder boosted their interviewing skills using a virtual reality training program, according to a new University of Michigan study. The virtual training sessions and separate preemployment assistance also significantly reduced anxiety and improved their access to jobs within six months compared to their...
A team of international researchers who study how gene mutations associated with autism interfere with social behaviour have found injections of the hormone oxytocin can normalize brain activity. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) The findings, which were presented recently at the 2021 Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome, point to the potential of oxytocin—known to influence behaviours such...
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Nearly 78 per cent of children with autism have at least one mental health condition and nearly half have two mental health conditions or more, according to a new U.S. study from the University of British Columbia’s department of psychology and the AJ Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University (Pennsylvania). The...
by UC Davis Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using machine learning, researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute have identified several patterns of maternal autoantibodies highly associated with the diagnosis and severity of autism. Their study, published Jan. 22 in Molecular Psychiatry, specifically focused on maternal autoantibody-related autism spectrum disorder (MAR ASD), a condition accounting for around 20% of all autism...
by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recent years have provided substantial research displaying the effect of genetic mutations on the development of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Based on those studies, researchers have focused attention on the commonalities behind those mutations and how they impact on the functioning of the brain. A study conducted by Professor Sagiv...
by Matt Kristoffersen, Yale University Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a study of medical registry records of nearly 400,000 parent-child pairs from Denmark, a Yale School of Public Health study found that parents who were themselves born very prematurely were nearly twice as likely to have children with autism spectrum disorder. The study, recently published in...
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: BRUCE BEUTLER, M.D. CREDIT: PHOTO TAKEN BY BRIAN COATS FOR UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER DALLAS – Dec. 22, 2020 – UT Southwestern scientists have adapted a classic research technique called forward genetics to identify new genes involved in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a study published this week in eLife, the researchers used...
