Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain "pruning" process during development, according to a study by neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).
Date Posted: August 23, 2014
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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An analysis of autism research covering genetics, brain imaging, and cognition led by Laurent Mottron of the University of Montreal has overhauled our understanding of why autism potentially occurs, develops and results in a diversity of symptoms.
Aug 18
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased ...
Aug 6
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Scientists unravel a neural circuit that could play an important role in autism
Aug 4
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that children with sensory processing disorders have decreased structural brain connections in specific sensory regions different than those in autism, further establishing SPD as a clinically important ...
Aug 2
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
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Studying children with autism and their parents, researchers have found that when a child has autism, his or her parents are more likely to have autistic traits than parents who don't have a child with an autism spectrum disorder, as measured by a ...
Jul 21
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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A team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is set to launch a $40 million clinical trial to explore stem cells from umbilical cord blood as a treatment for autism. But experts caution that the trial is premature.
Jul 16
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
GONew research from the University of Rochester Medical Center describes how exposure to air pollution early in life produces harmful ...
Jun 9
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Mental Health in Asia, Schizophrenia
GOMost schools across the United States provide simple vision tests to their students - not to prescribe glasses, but to identify ...
May 28
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
GORates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not creeping up so much as leaping up. New numbers just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that one in 68 children now has a diagnosis of ASD - a 30 percent increase in just ...
Apr 21
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
GOThe number of US children with autism spectrum disorder has soared approximately 30% in the past 2 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Apr 2
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
GOResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published a ...
Mar 27
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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It takes more mutations to trigger autism in women than in men, which may explain why men are four times more likely to have the disorder, according to a study published 26 February in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
The study found that ...
Mar 11
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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In 1998, there was a groundbreaking study telling parents that their children were at risk of getting autism from vaccines. Parents everywhere collectively gasped. After all, they had been told for years vaccines were the best way to prevent any ...
Feb 26
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children - such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia - according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) ...
Feb 18
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum ...
GOIn the search for treatments to help their children, families may turn to unconventional approaches such as mind-body medicine (e.g. ...
Jan 14
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
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