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Autistic Children And Families In Detroit Are Offered Help From The Children's Center Of Wayne County As They Prepare For School

Austis Medical News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 06:00
In preparation for the new school year The Children's Center's is gearing up their early intervention programs for families and children with autistic spectrum disorders between the ages 18 months to 6 years old. The Children's Center (TCC) recognizes one of the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States affecting our children is Autism...
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Infant's Gaze May Be An Early, But Subtle, Marker For Autism Risk

Austis Medical News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 04:00
Kennedy Krieger Institute announced new study results showing an early marker for later communication and social delays in infants at a higher-risk for autism may be infrequent gazing at other people when unprompted...
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Scientists Measure Gene Mutation Rate In Autism And Schizophrenia

Austis Medical News - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 02:00
An international study led by University of Montreal scientists suggests family history may not be a good predictor of the presence of mutations predisposing to autism or schizophrenia. The findings show how new or de novo gene mutations - alterations of the cell's DNA - play a role in these devastating conditions...
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Six-year Study Provides Documentation Of Theorized Differences In Brain's Cortex In Autism Disorders

Austis Medical News - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 03:00
There is still much that is unknown about autism spectrum disorders, but a University of Nevada, Reno psychologist has added to the body of knowledge that researchers around the world are compiling to try to demystify, prevent and treat the mysterious condition...
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Alarming Increase In Autism Brings Together Hundreds Of Parents, Researchers And Clinicians From Around The World To Long Beach This October

Austis Medical News - Thu, 08/26/2010 - 05:00
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new estimates that one in every 110 children (1 in 70 boys) is diagnosed with autism. Autism has become more common in our children than cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined...
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Fla.'s Jackson Health System Struggles With Nursing Home And Hospital Losses; Advocates Push Marijuana Cultivation In Calif.

Austis Medical News - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 06:00
The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System's "governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses. Almost 100 of the 289 nursing home patients in the Jackson Health System are uninsured. Half of those are undocumented immigrants under age 50...
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Curemark To Present At BioPharm America™ 2010

Austis Medical News - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 03:00
Curemark, LLC, a drug research and development company focused on the treatment of neurological diseases, will present at BioPharm America™ 2010, to be held September 15-17 in Boston at the Marriott Boston Copley Place, the company announced. Dr. Joan Fallon, Curemark's founder and CEO, will provide an overview of the company's enzyme replacement therapy targeted to autism...
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Researchers Connect APC Protein To Autism And Mental Retardation

Austis Medical News - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 02:00
A clue to the causes of autism and mental retardation lies in the synapse, the tiny intercellular junction that rapidly transfers information from one neuron to the next...
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Autism Research: For Measuring And Analyzing Child Behavior, NSF Awards $10M To Develop Computing Techniques

Austis Medical News - Mon, 08/23/2010 - 02:00
A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $10 million "Expeditions in Computing" award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel computing techniques for measuring and analyzing the behavior of children. These technologies will be used to enable new approaches for identifying children at risk for autism and other developmental delays...
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Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium To Develop Tools For Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors

Austis Medical News - Sun, 08/22/2010 - 02:00
Researchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five-year, $10 million initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create novel tools for evaluating social interactions and other behaviors that can be used in diagnosing or treating behavioral disorders such as autism...
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Autism Research Finds Empirical Link Between Multisensory Integration And Autism

Austis Medical News - Fri, 08/20/2010 - 06:00
A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has provided concrete evidence that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) process sensory information such as sound, touch and vision differently than typically developing children...
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Behavioral Innovations Announces Expansion Of Autism Services In San Antonio Location, Now Offering In-Home Treatment And Consulting Options

Austis Medical News - Thu, 08/19/2010 - 05:00
Behavioral Innovations, the premier provider of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services for families of children with Autism and other developmental disorders, announces the expansion of its San Antonio services to include In-home Autism Treatment programs and consultation services for schools and professionals...
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Developmental Problems, Some Exist In The Genes

Austis Medical News - Wed, 08/18/2010 - 03:00
Everyone is special in their own unique way. From a genetic point of view, no two humans are genetically identical. This means that DNA for each individual contains variants that are more or less common in the overall population. Some gene variations are actually genetic deletions, where sections of DNA 'code' are missing entirely...
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Language As A Window Into Sociability

Austis Medical News - Tue, 08/17/2010 - 05:00
People with Williams syndrome - known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers - process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders - characterized by social withdrawal and isolation-found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies...
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Disturbances In Certain Genes Play A Role In Autism

Austis Medical News - Tue, 08/17/2010 - 03:00
Together with colleagues from an international research group, autism researcher Christopher Gillberg of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has found in a new study that autism can be partially explained by abnormalities in certain genes. The group's results could, in the long run, pave the way for more appropriate treatments for autism...
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Robots To Help Children With Autism

Austis Medical News - Fri, 08/13/2010 - 04:00
Interbots, Inc., a high-tech spin-off company associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center has teamed up with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to provide innovative robot-based therapy for children with autism...
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New Brain Scan Diagnoses Autism In Adults

Austis Medical News - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 04:00
UK scientists have developed a new type of brain scan that only takes 15 minutes and can diagnose autism in adults with over 90 per cent accuracy: they hope to develop it so it can be used to screen children for autism spectrum disorders...
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Lack Of Evidence To Support Use Of Antidepressants For Autism

Austis Medical News - Mon, 08/09/2010 - 02:00
Antidepressants commonly prescribed to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended based on current evidence, a new study by Cochrane Researchers concludes...
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Autism And Antidepressants, No Compelling Evidence That It Helps

Austis Medical News - Sun, 08/08/2010 - 10:00
Based on current evidence, the commonly practiced therapy of prescribing antidepressants to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers...
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Free Program Available For Parents Of Children With Autism, Australia

Austis Medical News - Sun, 08/08/2010 - 02:00
Researchers at UQ's Parenting and Family Support Centre are offering a free program to parents of children aged two to nine with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Called "Primary Care Stepping Stones Triple P", it is the latest version of the popular Stepping Stones Triple P program, designed specifically for parents of children with a disability...
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