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Autism Problems Explained In New Research

By on November 8, 2005

ScienceDaily.com reports: New research from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute helps to explain why children with autism spectrum disorders (autism) have problem-solving difficulties. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology (fMRI) the Florey scientists have shown that children with autism have less activation in the deep parts of the brain responsible for executive function (attention, reasoning and problem solving).

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fMRI shows difference in Autist brain

By on October 26, 2005

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) show a difference in the autist brain when compared to non-autist brains.

MIT researchers to investigate autism

By on October 13, 2005

As per this article, MIT researchers will look at the genetic, molecular and behavioral aspects of autism. Funds for this research are from a $7.5 million dollar grant.

Rodent Social Behavior Encoded in Junk DNA

By on June 10, 2005

Google News reports: eMaxHealth.com, NC - 10 minutes ago
A discovery that may someday help to explain human social behavior and disorders such as autism has been made in a species of pudgy rodents by researchers ...

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IBM sells Blue Gene for brain research

By on June 5, 2005

Google News reports: ZDNet - 3 hours ago
... such as perception, thought and memory and to illuminate how malfunctions in the brain's circuitry can lead to problems such as autism or schizophrenia. ...

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Scientists crack cognitive code of sarcasm

By on May 29, 2005

Google News reports: Newindpress, India - May 25, 2005
... The findings could provide vital clues to the best way of helping people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, as well as those with some forms of brain damage ...

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Report: Chemical mixes can affect nerve growth: BRICK FAMILIES STILL SEEK ANSWER

By on February 3, 2005

When parents William and Bobbie Gallagher pressed government officials to investigate why their children and so many others here are autistic, they suggested it might be worth checking into pollution and environmental factors.

Monkey “Pay-Per-View” Study Could Aid Understanding Of Autism

By on January 29, 2005

Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters. They say their research technique offers a rigorous laboratory approach to studying the "social machinery" of the brain and how this machinery goes tragically awry in autism -- a disorder that afflicts more than a million Americans and is the fastest growing developmental disorder.

Deciphering A Mystery: New Research Provides Clues To The Genetic, Neurological,

By on November 4, 2004

Science Daily Reports:

In new research, scientists have found that a specific gene contributes to autism and that autistic people have fewer receptors for the brain messenger acetylcholine, as well as more tightly packed columns of neurons in the cerebral cortex. Another study found that autistic children were less able to discriminate similar sounds than were other children.

The research is providing new clues to the genetic, neurological,...

Hunt for Autism Genes to Be Led by Johns Hopkins Researchers

By on October 18, 2004

Johns Hopkins University reports:

With a three-year $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins scientists will lead the largest hunt for genetic contributors to autism, a neuropsychiatric condition whose causes are almost as mysterious today as when the condition was first described in 1943.

The researchers will apply new genome-searching technologies to available samples and information from 465...