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Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are studying how to use 3-D imaging to analyze the facial structures and brain abnormalities of autistic children, in the hopes of developing a formula to identify autism in young children. From a press release:
“When you compare the faces and head shapes of children with specific types of autism […]
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers affiliated with the University of Washington’s Autism Center have found an “abnormal pattern of connectivity” in the brains of autistic adults; this different neurological “wiring” may be responsible for social impairments that are one feature of autism. The study, which is published in the journal Brain, focused on the […]
Dr. Keith Shafritz, an assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra University, is using a form of functional magnetic imaging to study why autistic children engage in repetitive behavior such as hand-flapping, rocking, and lining up objects. From today’s Newsday:
In children with autism, Shafritz found deficits in specific regions of the cerebral cortex, the outer […]
According to Dr. Fernando Miranda of the Bright Mind Institute, maybe not. A report in the May 19th Good Morning America/ABC News describes some children who were initially diagnosed with autism, and later found to have Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. For some of the children, anti-seizure medication has produced dramatic results and Dr. Miranda is said […]
The previous post considered a physiological marker for autism that draws on research on the brain responses of adolescents with Asperger Syndrome playing an interactive game. Drs. G. Bradley Schafer of University of Nebraska and Nancy J. Mendelsohn of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota have published an article in the January issue of Genetics […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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