Teaching young children with autism to imitate others may improve a broader range of social skills, according to a new study by a Michigan State University scholar.
Dec 12, 2011
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(Medical Xpress) -- College students looking at photographs spent more time gazing at the people in the pictures than the surrounding elements, even when those people were quite small or not centrally located, according to ...
Oct 19, 2011
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Autism researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have found a link between low birthweight and children diagnosed with autism, reporting premature infants are five times more likely to have autism than ...
Oct 17, 2011
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Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, and BGI, the largest genomic organization in the world and a global leader in whole genome sequencing, jointly announce their partnership to create ...
Oct 13, 2011
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New research from the University of Utah in collaboration with the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) shows that the presence or absence of intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) varies with risk factors ...
Sep 19, 2011
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A new study from Cambridge University has for the first time found that autism diagnoses are more common in an IT-rich region.
Jun 20, 2011
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The protein MeCP2 is porridge to the finicky neuron. Like Goldilocks, the neuron or brain cell needs the protein in just the right amount. Girls born with dysfunctional MeCP2 (methyl-CpG-binding protein 2) develop Rett syndrome, ...
Jun 2, 2011
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A new study from Cambridge University has for the first time found that female-to-male transsexual people have a higher than average number of autistic traits.
May 5, 2011
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Scientists using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) observed that the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder are larger than those without autism, but this difference appears related to increased rates of brain growth ...
May 2, 2011
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A five-minute checklist that parents can fill out in pediatrician waiting rooms may someday help in the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...
Apr 28, 2011
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