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Teaching autistic teens to cope
Teenagers with autism spectrum disorder are in a bind. The disorder is characterized by impairments in communication and social interaction, but it's a continuum, so some teens diagnosed with ASD are considered high functioning ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Sleep apnea persisting into teens can impact life skills, study finds
The number of children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) declines as they enter adolescence, but the teen years can be a devastating trial of behavior and learning problems for kids with persistent OSA, new research shows.
Sleep apnea
Jun 12, 2012 |
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Even non-sexual social contact can raise body temperature
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews found that non-sexual social interactions with men caused a noticeable rise in the temperature of a woman's face, without them even noticing.
Medical research
May 30, 2012 |
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Feeling strong emotions makes peoples' brains 'tick together'
Experiencing strong emotions synchronises brain activity across individuals, research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 24, 2012 |
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Study finds stressed men more social, refutes common belief that stress always causes aggressive behavior
A team of researchers led by the psychologists and neuroscientists Prof. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Bernadette von Dawans at the University of Freiburg, Germany, examined in a study how men react in stressful situations - and ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 21, 2012 |
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Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.
Neuroscience
May 17, 2012 |
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Genetic test may spot raised autism risk
(HealthDay) -- Researchers report that a new DNA test may be able to spot an increased risk of autism in children as young as 6 months old.
Pediatrics
May 16, 2012 |
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Study shows delays in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders
A new University of Miami (UM) study shows that one in three children who have an older sibling with an Autism Related Disorder (ASD) fall into a group characterized by higher levels of autism-related behaviors or lower levels ...
Autism spectrum disorders
May 16, 2012 |
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Agent reduces autism-like behaviors in mice
National Institutes of Health researchers have reversed behaviors in mice resembling two of the three core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). An experimental compound, called GRN-529, increased social ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Two-Thirds of kids with autism have been bullied: study
(HealthDay) -- Nearly two-thirds of American children with autism have been bullied at some point in their lives, and these kids are bullied three times more often than their siblings without autism, a new ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Mar 30, 2012 |
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When a child with autism wanders, it's crucial to stay a step ahead
(HealthDay) -- The Oertel family lives in a red-brick, two-story house tucked in a tree-lined, suburban Maryland cul-de-sac. There's no fence, just a small alarm company sign on the lawn that gives no clue ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Self-centered kids? Blame their immature brains
A new study suggests that age-associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved in self control. The findings, published by Cell Press in the ...
Neuroscience
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Study highlights ways video games can be enhanced for older adults
Advances in technology have brought the video gaming experience closer to that of traditional physical games. Although systems, such as the Wii, that incorporate these features fly off the shelves, the increasingly complex ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Eye-tracking reveals variability in successful social strategies for children with autism
In a study published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Katherine Rice and colleagues, from the Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Em ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Study compares traits of autism, schizophrenia
(Medical Xpress) -- A UT Dallas professor is studying the differences between the social impairments found in autism and schizophrenia to help develop better treatments for people with both disorders.
Autism spectrum disorders
Feb 27, 2012 |
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