by University of Missouri Drugs known as “beta-blockers” have been used since the 1960s as a low-cost, safe and effective means to lower heart rate and control blood pressure. But now researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders have discovered a version of the...
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Are We Overdiagnosing Autism?
Researchers say changing criteria has resulted in more people being diagnosed with autism. Getty Images Researchers say the changing criteria for autism may be resulting in an overdiagnosis of the condition. Some experts, however, say that better diagnostic methods are simply recognizing autism in more individuals and at an earlier age. Earlier diagnosis allows medical professionals to begin treatments...
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Parents of severely autistic schoolboy, 11, who could not talk claim he has said his first full sentence after ‘very encouraging’ stem-cell treatment in Miami
Danny Bullen had the treatment last month and should have a second this year The next day his mother claims he asked for ‘more potatoes [crisps] please’ The youngster needs help going to the toilet and attends a specialist school The parents of an autistic schoolboy claim he spoke his first full sentence just hours after undergoing stem-cell therapy in the...
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Movement impairments in autism could be reversible
Researchers from Cardiff University have established a link between a genetic mutation and developmental movement impairments in autism. Cardiff University The study, which found that the mutation of the CYFIP1 gene leads to changes in the development of brain cells, leading to the motor issues, also suggests that motor learning difficulties occur at a young...
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Brain clock ticks differently in autism
The neural ‘time windows’ in certain small brain areas contribute to the complex cognitive symptoms of autism, new research suggests. In a brain imaging study of adults, the severity of autistic symptoms was linked to how long these brain areas stored information. The differences in neural timescales may underlie features of autism like hypersensitivity and...
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Too many children with autism are let down by schools and end up in prison
For many young people, school can be a difficult place. And for some, it can be just about impossible. Negative experiences in school can have harmful long-term effects on pupils with autism spectrum conditions. Credit: shutterstock Official figures show that children, are increasingly being suspended or expelled from school because of “behavioural problems” – many...
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Stem Cell–Derived Neurons from People with Autism Grow Differently
Changes in gene expression also hint at how the brains of people with ASD develop differently from those of other people. Neurons derived from the skin cells of people with and without autism spectrum disorder exhibit different patterns of growth and development, according to a study published this week (January 7) in Nature Neuroscience. Cortical neurons derived from skin cells of a person...
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Adults with autism can read complex emotions in others
Psychologists at the University of Kent used eye-tracking technology to monitor participants as they read stories in which a character made a decision then experienced a positive or negative outcome. New research shows for the first time that adults with autism can recognise complex emotions such as regret and relief in others as easily as those without the condition. The lead author Professor Heather Ferguson,...
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Autism behaviors show unique brain network fingerprints in infants
The findings help pinpoint brain regions involved in particular aspects of ASD and provide clues as to how the characteristic behaviors–known as restricted and repetitive behaviors–develop in the brain from an early age. “This study is the first to investigate which patterns of brain functional connectivity underlie the emergence of these behaviors in infancy,” said...
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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...