autism

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

...al Genomics Research Institute (TGen) on melanoma, autism and pancreatic cancer. Labs researchers are focusing on proteomics and metabolomics for these diseases as a complement to Labs collaborators' work in genomics. Using Labs' systems biology informatics prototypes, Labs researchers have built qualitativ...

Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge

...al infection has been implicated in schizophrenia, autism and cerebral palsy; bacterial infection is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease. Up to 20 percent of pregnancies have complications involving infections of the uterus and its contents, a number that will rise as more children are born premature. In...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...jor predictions, yields "remarkable implications"; autism link Aron reported that, using functional magneti...e forms of autism," Brown added. "Some people with autism don't understand or experience any sort of emotional attachment or romantic love. I would speculate ...

Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism

...olcell.org/in_press.shtml ). While disorders like autism may arise from a multiplicity of causes, research ...may be impeded. Individuals with disorders such as autism and Rett syndrome display not only fewer branches, but also show two quite different dendrite patter...

'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes

...urobiologists, could lead to better treatments for autism and better methods to teach autistic children. Th...ghts into such disorders as autism. 'Children with autism tend not to orient to other individuals,' he said. 'They don't tend to look other people in the eye,...

Rodent social behavior encoded in junk DNA

...xplain human social behavior and disorders such as autism has been made in a species of pudgy rodents by res...nd perhaps influence disorders of sociability like autism and social anxiety disorders, suggest the researchers. The Emory researchers have found that the bon...

Complex gene interactions account for autism risk

...ence that complex genetic interactions account for autism risk. The Duke team found that the brain mechanism...ods for early diagnosis of autism, and perhaps new autism therapies, according to the researchers. "Identifying the genes that contribute to cause autism has...

Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism

...ina at Chapel Hill indicates that when people with autism look at a face, activity in the brain area that re...ific behavioral interventions may help people with autism improve their ability to interact socially. The new research will be presented Wednesday (Nov. 16) ...

UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system

...he journal Nature Neuroscience shows children with autism have virtually no activity in a key part of the br...ions can be understood automatically. Symptoms of autism include difficulties with social interaction -- including verbal and nonverbal communication -- imit...

'Executive' monkeys influenced by other executives, not subordinates

...esting ways of diagnosing or assisting people with autism and other disorders, such studies are also a means of understanding what enables us to be social." ...

Utah researchers confirm chromosome may harbor autism gene

...erested in finding more families with a history of autism to join the study. The just-published research confirms Finnish studies of families that linked autism to the same region on chromosome 3, according to principal author Hilary Coon, Ph.D., research assoc...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...hma, cataracts, hypertension, Parkinson's disease, autism and obesity. The target diseases and the populatio...seases like diabetes, childhood asthma, obesity or autism cannot be due to major shifts in the human gene pool. They must be due to changes in the environment...

Key to early diagnosis of autism may be in the placenta

...Information on the earliest development aspects of autism in children has been limited even though approximately one in every 200 children is diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The earlier the diagnosis is made, the greater the treatment impact. Current studies are searching for characterist...

Autistic brain has fewer neurons for processing emotion

... This study provides quantitative evidence linking autism to an abnormality of the amygdala, especially the ...en has shown that the amygdala in young males with autism is abnormally large in volume due to precocious maturation. "It is somewhat surprising, therefore, t...

New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles

...proper connectivity in the brain may also underlie autism spectrum disorders and mental retardation. The multitasking members of the FGF growth factor family regulate blood vessel formation, wound repair, lung maturation, and development of skeletal muscle, blood and bone marrow cells. The Salk study adds ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism

...rences that characterize the brains of people with autism are related to the way those brains process inform.... The researchers have also found that people with autism rely heavily on the parts of the brain that deal with imagery, even when completing tasks that would...

Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders

... new treatments and cures for human disorders like autism and Parkinson's disease. For the first time, a ps... to another, a skill often impaired in people with autism and similar illnesses. "Without a measure of cognitive deficit in mice that is relevant to such di...

Mutant mice show key autism traits

While the causes of autism remain complex and mysterious, researchers are steadily adding pieces to its intricate puzzle. In what they believe to be a significant new approach to understanding "autism spectrum disorders" (ASD), researchers have developed a mouse that shows abn...

When nerve cells can't make contact

... have examined the effects of mutations that cause autism in humans. These are mutations in the genes which ...the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could cause autism in small children has no scientific basis at all. Today, it is clear that genetic factors are the ma...

Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease

...emporal dementia, and, possibly, disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, the researchers say. In addition, because the disease erodes aspects of social behavior and emotions ?self awareness, moral reasoning and empathy ?that are highly developed in humans, the finding suggests that the cells may play...

Humpback whales have brain cells also found in humans

...ase and other debilitating brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Spindle neurons were also found in the same location in toothed whales with the largest brains, which suggests that they may be related to brain size. The authors note that spindle neurons probably first appeared in the common a...

Brain regions do not communicate efficiently in adults with autism

A novel look at the brains of adults with autism has provided new evidence that various brain regio...the study. "Our findings indicate adults with autism show differences in coordinated neural activity," said Murias, "which implies poor internal communic...

Older fathers more likely to have autistic children

...lder have a significantly increased risk of having autism spectrum disorders compared with those whose fathe...tism and related conditions, known collectively as autism spectrum disorders, have become increasingly common, affecting 50 in every 10,000 children as compar...

'The eyes have it' -- Autism research yields surprising results

...s findings show that children and adolescents with autism may have difficulty reading mental states from fac...re accurate measure of the abilities of those with autism can be obtained through the use of sophisticated digital imaging techniques with animated facial exp...

Army research mission focused on autism

.... About 10 percent of individuals with ASD develop autism secondary to a known genetic disorder. The cause o...Reynolds of Unlocking Autism. "What makes treating autism difficult is that each combination to unlock each person affected is so unique." As a result of a...

New protein implicated in autism

... lacking CADPS2, which is encoded by a gene in the autism susceptibility region of human chromosome 7, had i...PS2 protein) was detected in some individuals with autism and was never detected in their healthy immediate relatives, leading to the suggestion that defects ...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...lly cause other developmental disabilities such as autism or attention deficit disorder. The virus can also damage the placenta, leading to pregnancy loss. CMV is present in bodily secretions and is spread through close personal contact, such as kissing or sharing eating utensils. For example, an infan...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

... organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, and the National Institutes of Health. The consortium scientists utilized statistical pow...

Using brain scans, researchers find evidence for a two-stage model of human perceptual learning

...-up and top-down information in the brain, such as autism or schizophrenia, Riesenhuber said. It also suggests how the learning of visual skills can be enhanced by directly monitoring neuronal activity. "This could be useful, for instance, to speed up learning to detect targets in unfamiliar imaging modalit...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred Volkmar, M.D. and Ami Klin are part o...gene and a region of a chromosome that may lead to autism in children. The findings are published online today in Nature Genetics and also will be published ...

Newborn brains grow vision and movement regions first

...neurons, or nerve cells, may have implications for autism research, Gilmore said. Children with autism have larger brains and more gray matter than average. The study suggests that in autistic children, ...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

...e can detect abnormal development in diseases like autism by looking at folding differences,?said Fischl. This tool may also be used to shed light on other neurological diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. ...

Gene found for rare disorder may reveal new pathway in mental retardation

...in development, in mental retardation and possibly autism as well." ...

A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern

...researchers from UCLA will show that children with autism can’t do this. They hear and they see, of course, ...formation. That may be why children diagnosed with autism have varying degrees of impairment in communication skills and social interactions and display restr...

Researchers reveal structure of protein altered in autism

...the structure of the protein complex implicated in autism spectrum disorders, a research team led by scienti... and communication. Both children and adults with autism typically show difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, interpersonal relationships, and...