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Study Shows Environmental Influences May Cause Autism in Some Cases <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Thursday, May 29, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Albert Einstein College of Medicine <\/a> <\/div>\n

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Media reports on the causes of ASD have focused on the fact that older fathers (40 and over) are more likely than younger fathers to have children with an ASD, probably because of gene mutations that accumulate over the years in sperm-making cells. Yet older mothers (35 and over) face a similar risk that is entirely independent of their partners’ age. But for older mothers, scientists know very little about why this risk exists. The Einstein researchers looked for genetic as well as environmental influences that might account for older mothers’ increased risk for having children with ASD. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Mice with \u201cMohawks\u201d Help Scientists Link Autism to Two Biological Pathways in Brain<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Tuesday, May 27, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by New York University School of Medicine <\/a> <\/div>\n

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\u201cAha\u201d moments are rare in medical research, scientists say. As rare, they add, as finding mice with Mohawk-like hairstyles.<\/p>\n

But both events happened in a lab at NYU Langone Medical Center, months after an international team of neuroscientists bred hundreds of mice with a suspect genetic mutation tied to autism spectrum disorders.<\/p>\n

Almost all the grown mice, the NYU Langone team observed, had sideways,\u201covergroomed\u201d hair with a highly stylized center hairline between their ears and hardly a tuft elsewhere. Mice typically groom each other\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Screening for Autism: There’s an App for That <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Thursday, May 22, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Duke University <\/a> <\/div>\n

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Researchers at Duke University have developed software that tracks and records infants\u2019 activity during videotaped autism screening tests. Their results show that the program is as good at spotting behavioral markers of autism as experts giving the test themselves, and better than non-expert medical clinicians and students in training.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Motor skill deficiencies linked to autism severity in new research <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Wednesday, April 23, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Oregon State University <\/a> <\/div>\n

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The findings, believed to the be the first to show a direct relationship between motor skills and autism severity, indicate that development of fine and gross motor skills should be included in treatment plans for young children with autism.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Researchers Find Association Between SSRI Use During Pregnancy and Autism and Developmental Delays in Boys<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Tuesday, April 15, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Johns Hopkins University <\/a> <\/div>\n

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In a study of nearly 1,000 mother-child pairs, researchers from the Bloomberg School of Public health found that prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a frequently prescribed treatment for depression, anxiety and other disorders, was associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental delays (DD) in boys. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Parental obesity and autism risk in the child <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Monday, April 7, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Norwegian Institute of Public Health <\/a> <\/div>\n

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\u201cWe were very surprised by these findings because we expected that maternal obesity would be the main risk factor for the development of ASD. It means that we have had too much focus on the mother and too little on the father. This probably reflects the fact that we have given greater focus to conditions in pregnancy, such as the growth environment for the foetus in the womb than both environmental and genetic factors before conception,\u201d says Sur\u00e9n.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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New clue to autism found inside brain cells <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Wednesday, March 26, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Washington University in St. Louis <\/a> <\/div>\n

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The findings add a significant new dimension to basic brain cell function. Scientists have long assumed that brain cell receptors are only active on the surface of cells. The new study shows that receptors can be active inside cells, and their effects can be considerably different from the same receptors located on the cell surface. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Patches of Cortical Layers Disrupted During Early Brain Development in Autism <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Wednesday, March 26, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by University of California, San Diego <\/a> <\/div>\n

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The study found that in the brains of children with autism, key genetic markers were absent in brain cells in multiple layers. This defect indicates that the crucial early developmental step of creating six distinct layers with specific types of brain cells \u2013 something that begins in prenatal life \u2013 had been disrupted.\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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The gene family linked to brain evolution is implicated in severity of autism symptoms <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Friday, March 21, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by University of Colorado, Denver<\/a> <\/div>\n

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The research team found that not only was DUF1220 linked to severity of autism overall, they found that as DUF1220 copy number increased, the severity of each of three main symptoms of the disorder — social deficits, communicative impairments and repetitive behaviors \u2013 became progressively worse.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Study Led by Children\u2019s National Author Finds Increased Gender Variance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD <\/a><\/h2>\n
\n Wednesday, March 12, 2014<\/span>  \u00b7  Posted by Children’s National <\/a> <\/div>\n

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Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were more likely to exhibit gender variance, the wish to be the other gender, than children with no neurodevelopmental disorder, or a medical neurodevelopmental disorder such as epilepsy or neurofibromatosis.\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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