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MMR Vaccine Immunizations Rates Are On The Rise

...due to the vaccines association with the childhood autism disease. A small-scale study published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr Andrew Wakefield suggested a link to autism. But later on a major Medical Research Council study of more than 4,000 children concluded in September 2004 that three-in-one injection...

Autism: Symposium to Discuss Myths and Misconceptions

Many theories about autism are doing the rounds amongst the media and the gen...izer has said that, with the focus of attention on autism from scientists and society, there is a responsibility to distinguish between uninformed stereotypes...

Vaccines For Children: At What Cost?

... in UK, following the reports of increased risk of autism // in children who received the MMR vaccine, for protection against mumps, measles and rubella. Currently, children in Britain receive the maximum number of vaccinations between 2 and 15 months of birth with nearly 21 vaccines for protection again...

Systemizers Have A Higher Risk Of Children Suffering From Autism

...ead believes that the gene that is responsible for autism is linked to the gene that helps people to systemi...at their fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are all in a systemizing profession such as engineering. Students in the field of natural sciences h...

A new database exclusively for autism

...hat sessions, member profiles and links to outside autism resources are also planned. Dr. Paul Law of the Kennedy Krieger Institute says that the influence of the society and parents will oversee the development of the resource. The data collection and management processes will be designed with careful at...

Oxytocin Boosts Trust and Reduces Fear.

...rs face. Researchers have also found that these autism patients have high activity of amygdale and hence fear facing other humans. Further research has to be done on the effect of oxytocin on women, use of oxytocin as a treatment modality in other relevant fear disorders, study on the closely related h...

Autism children's lack Facial response

...gues studied the brain activity in children's with autism and found that they had less brain activity compa... normal children. The Researchers found //that the autism children's had less activity in Mirron neurons, which is responsible for observation and imitating o...

Brain Enlargement May Be Characteristic of Autism

...udy was conducted upon 51 children who suffer from autism belonging to the age group of 18 months and 35 mon...rebral cortical GM and WM brain volume in cases of autism has been confirmed by this study, when the autistic patients are two years old....

Autistic traits evident in relatives

...w study demonstrates that relatives of people with autism may display autistic brain differences and behaviours linked to the condition, even though they may not suffer from the disorder themselves. // The work, reported in the New Scientist , was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Neurosc...

Autism nothing more than an extreme form of male brain development

...ain. Yet another finding that substantiates that autism is an exaggeration of the typical male brain devel...rch in the same direction would help understand if autism is a disease by itself or a manifestation of children who simply develop in a different way....

MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism

...d to find out the link between MMR vaccination and autism or bowel disease. As it is believed that use of MM...d a study linking the injections with the onset of autism and Crohn’s disease — an inflammation of the gastrointestinal system — in 12 children. The new comp...

WHO says MMR vaccine is safe and recommends MMR Jab to all children’

...the use of MMR vaccine as it was linked to causing autism in children’s after vaccination, the concerns were high after an article which was published in The Lancet by Dr. Andrew Wakefiled, but doubts were not proved and the same article concluded that there was no evidence to support to link between usage ...

Genetic Eye Disorder Can Have Other Implications

... delayed motor development, and 2 met criteria for autism spectrum disorder with cognitive and behavioral impairment. In addition, 7 had malformations or complete absence of one or both internal carotid arteries, one of the two carotid arteries that are the main suppliers of blood to the brain. Source: New...

Treating Autism More Effectively

... findings could help specialists better understand autism and how to choose the best treatments for individu...ers believe their findings would shed new light on autism and the notion that autism might be more a collection of related disorders with overlapping symptoms...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...en with autism. According to him, individuals with autism have difficulties with many forms of social communication, and their gaze processing is impaired at various levels, such as eye contact, gaze following, joint attention and understanding gaze....

Autism epidemic is a myth- says a new study

... this leads to diagnosis of more and more cases of autism and other related disabilities today....

Language development linked to Foxp2 gene

... for establishing links between the Foxp2 gene and autism in children. Reference: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, news release, June 2005...

Mental health may deteriorate as early as in the teens

...lude severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia or autism etc....

Early diagnosis for autism from blood tests may be possible

... be the first test to be developed that can detect autism from the blood tests of children. Autism spectrum...s of behavior. Till date the earliest diagnosis of autism is possible at the age of 3 years. The scientists have taken blood samples from both autistic child...

Early identification of autism possible

... of Canada have been able to successfully diagnose autism in infants below one years of age.// In a process to systematically document early signs of autism in children researchers had been able to diagnose high-risk infants and confirmed the diagnosis in a...

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