Aug. 29, 2017 — Parents and siblings of children with limited speech who took an innovative training program significantly improved their ability to communicate with the special needs youth, outlines a new ...
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Aug. 8, 2017 — The costs associated with the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), one evidence-based treatment for young children with autism, were fully offset after only two years following intervention due to ...
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Aug. 7, 2017 — An antenna-like structure on cells, once considered a useless vestige, can cause defects in the brain's wiring similar to what's seen in autism, schizophrenia, and other disorders. In the ...
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Aug. 7, 2017 — Decreased brain pH in the patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has been considered to be the result of secondary factors associated with the diseases, such as medication and agonal state. ...
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Aug. 2, 2017 — Key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a portion of the forebrain, and that reversing the imbalance could alleviate some of its hallmark ...
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Aug. 1, 2017 — Researchers have discovered that parents who participate in cognitive therapy with their children with autism also experience improvements in their own depression, emotion ...
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July 31, 2017 — Adults with autism may overestimate the volatility of the world around them, finds a new ...
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July 28, 2017 — A brain penetrant drug -- a small-molecule mimetic of BDNF, or brain derived neurotrophic factor -- is able to improve brain performance in Rett syndrome mice -- specifically synaptic plasticity in ...
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July 25, 2017 — Children with autism have a tell-tale difference on brain tests compared with other children, researchers have found. Specifically, the researchers found that the lower a child's peak alpha ...
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July 24, 2017 — Just as parents are not the root of all their children's problems, a single gene mutation can't be blamed for complex brain disorders like autism, according to a neuroscientist. To help ...
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July 21, 2017 — New insight into the genetic basis of neuropsychiatric disorders has been provided through new study. In this research, the first mouse model of a mutation in the ARID1B gene was created and then ...
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July 20, 2017 — A researcher is working with art therapists to find better ways to treat children who have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Researchers were able to develop a set of guidelines for delivering art ...
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July 19, 2017 — Children exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy seem to be at a slightly higher risk of autism than children of mothers with psychiatric disorders who were not treated with antidepressants ...
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July 18, 2017 — Research reveals the presence of a blueprint for the complex visual system already present at birth. The observations shed light on a long-standing mystery about how and when certain cardinal ...
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July 17, 2017 — Mutations that occur after conception play an important role in autism, suggests a new study of nearly 6,000 families, combining three genetic sequencing ...
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July 17, 2017 — A tool intended to detect signs of autism in high-risk infants can be used to help identify and treat patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, a genetic disorder, who most need early intervention. ...
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July 14, 2017 — Women and girls with autism may face greater challenges with real world planning, organization and other daily living skills, according to a new ...
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July 11, 2017 — The 3-D structure of MDGA1/Neuroligin-2 complex have been revealed by researchers, along with mechanistic insights into how MDGAs negatively modulate synapse development governed by ...
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July 6, 2017 — New research now shows that early postnatal mice exposed to isoflurane -- a standard and widely used inhaled general anesthetic agent -- leads to chronic, abnormal activation of the mTOR pathway, a ...
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July 5, 2017 — Rett syndrome is a neurological disorder affecting learning and development, caused by a mutation in the MECP2 gene triggering decreased levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Previous ...
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