Children with Autism spectrum disorder experience internal and external problems at higher rates than a normally developing child. These problems could worsen social impairment, according to the researchers with the Virginia Tech center for Autism Research. The study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, compared social impairment scores in 57 children. (3-17...
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Researchers disentangle relationship between autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, and ADHD in children
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience internalizing and externalizing problems at higher rates than typically developing children, which could worsen social impairment, according to researchers with the Virginia Tech Center for Autism Research. The study, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, compared social impairment scores in 57 children (3-17 years, 82.5 percent male) with...
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Cracking the brain’s genetic code to prevent neurological and psychiatric diseases
The network will provide data from 800 scientists and the brain diseases they study, which are represented on this map in different colors. An international network of neurologists, geneticists and researchers led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC is cracking the human genetic code so that one day people could check their...
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Studies uncover long-term effects of traumatic brain injury
Doctors are beginning to get answers to the question that every parent whose child has had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) wants to know: What will my child be like 10 years from now? In a study to be presented Friday Feb. 10 at the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists in Las...