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1. New Technology Reveals A Unique Vocal Signature In Autism A new automated vocal analysis technology could fundamentally change the study of language development as well as the screening for autism spectrum disorders and language delay, reports a study in the July 19 online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…...
2. Research Provides Important Insight Into ‘Systemizing’ Theory Of Autism A new study from Cambridge University has for the first time found that autism diagnoses are more common in an IT-rich region. The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, has important implications for service provision in different regions and for the ‘hyper-systemizing’ theory of autism....
3. Autism Families With New Pregnancies Sought For Vitamin D Research Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Pediatrics (OHSU, Portland, Oregon) is seeking roughly 50-100 volunteer families to participate in a vitamin D study. The goal of the study is to find out whether giving Vitamin D to the pregnant mother, who already has had at least one previous child with autism, can prevent the recurrence […]...
4. Weaker Brain "Sync" May Be Early Sign Of Autism In a novel imaging study of sleeping toddlers, scientists at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence report that a diminished ability of a young brain’s hemispheres to “sync” with one another could be a powerful, new biological marker of autism, one that might enable an autism diagnosis at a very young […]...
5. Study Aims To Uncover Source Of Sensory Problems In Autism The way the brain reacts differently to the sense of touch in people with Autism will be examined as part of an innovative Cardiff University study designed to create better understanding of the condition in Autism....
6. McMaster Researchers Say Routine Screening For Autism Not Needed Proposals recommending routine screening of all children for autism gets a thumbs down from researchers at McMaster University. In a study in the online edition of the journal Pediatrics, the researchers say there is “not enough sound evidence to support the implementation of a routine population-based screening program for autism....
7. Talk, talk, talk . . . or say something E. J. Dionne makes a great point today in the Washington Post about the potential collision between the rhetoric and labels politicians use to get elected and the hard facts and hard work of actually governing.  It’s one thing to talk about government waste, another to figure out what programs to cut.   It’s a fair […]...
8. Johns Hopkins Researchers Create New Mouse Model Of Autism In an effort to unravel the tangled biology of autism, Johns Hopkins scientists have created a mouse model that mimics a human mutation of a gene known to be associated with autism spectrum disorders. Experiments with the engineered mouse reveal a molecular mechanism by which mutations of the gene named Shank3 affect the brain and […]...
9. Study Linking Autism To MMR Vaccine “An Elaborate Fraud” Study Linking Autism To MMR Vaccine "An Elaborate Fraud"...
10. Genetic Causation Of ASD Appears To Be Highly Diverse; Thoughts On Why Fewer Girls Have Autism A clinically extensive and mathematically powerful study of 1000 families with one autistic child and one unaffected sibling has validated a controversial theory of autism’s complex genetic causation. The study for the first time estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy number variation (CNV) […]...
11. Routine Autism Screening Not Necessary, Say Canadian Researchers Researchers from McMaster University believe that routine autism screening for all children is not necessary. They say that “there is not enough sound evidence supporting the implementation of a routine population-based screening program for autism.” Their report is published in the journal Pediatrics....
12. Seaside Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2b Study Of STX209 In Autism Spectrum Disorders Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. announced today the initiation of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b study to evaluate the effects of STX209 (arbaclofen) on social impairment in children, adolescents and adults (ages 5 to 21) with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The Company announced positive results from an open-label Phase 2a study of STX209 in September of […]...
13. Pitt Study Examines Environmental Risk Factors For Childhood Autism The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has launched a multi-year study to help identify environmental and other factors that may put children at risk for developing conditions within the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)....
14. Researchers Develop Mouse Model To Help Find How A Gene Mutation Leads To Autism Researchers Develop Mouse Model To Help Find How A Gene Mutation Leads To Autism...