Category: Autism

Exposure to specific toxins and nutrients during late pregnancy and early life correlate with autism risk

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From the The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Using evidence found in baby teeth, researchers from The Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Environmental Health Sciences Laboratory… Read more »

Brain anatomy differs in people with 22q genetic risk for schizophrenia, autism

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From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those… Read more »

Oxytocin administered to the nose increases emotion perception in autism

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From the University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine press release: A recent study has demonstrated that intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others. This is an… Read more »

Facial expressions: How brains process emotion

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From the California Institute of Technology press release: Have you ever thought someone was angry at you, but it turned out you were just misreading their facial expression? Caltech researchers… Read more »

Speech and language deficits in children with autism may not cause tantrums

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From the Penn State press release: Speech or language impairments may not be the cause of more frequent tantrums in children with autism, according to Penn State College of Medicine… Read more »

Study looks at influence of paternal age at conception on social development in offspring

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From the Elsevier press release: The age of the father at the time his children are born may influence their social development, suggests a study published in the May 2017… Read more »

Imbalances in neural pathways may contribute to repetitive behaviors in autism

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From the JCI Journals press release: Genetic studies have linked a number of risk genes to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although the complex genetics underlying ASD likely involve interactions between… Read more »