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Autism, intellectual delay could be result of spontaneous mutations

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
Genetic variants across the genome contribute to about 8 percent of the risk for certain developmental conditions — much more ...
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Autism more closely linked an inability to ‘read’ other people than inflexible thinking and lack of self-control

Tony Charman | Spectrum | 
For more than 30 years, scientists have debated which of two cognitive abilities, theory of mind and executive function, is ...
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Looking for a connection between autism and PTSD

Lauren Gravitz | Spectrum | 
Having autism can sometimes mean enduring a litany of traumatic events, starting from a young age. And for many, those ...
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Depression ‘three times as common’ among adults with autism

Hannah Furfaro | Spectrum | 
Depression is more than three times as common among adults with autism as it is in the general population, according ...
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Should you disclose your autism diagnosis at work?

Sara Luterman | Spectrum | 
One central question those of us with jobs face is: Do I disclose my autism diagnosis to my boss and ...
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Viewpoint: Federal marijuana regulations defy ‘common sense’, hindering autism and epilepsy research

Shaun Hussain | Spectrum | 
A few years ago, I began to see children in my practice who seemingly responded to marijuana-derived extracts. And as ...
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Are we close to a simple blood test for autism?

Hannah Furfaro | Spectrum | 
A new study suggests that its results could lead to a simple test for some children with autism, but statisticians ...
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Pregnancy and depression: Do antidepressants increase risk of autism?

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
Among the many things a woman is supposed to avoid when pregnant are antidepressants, particularly a subtype of the drugs ...
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Diagnosing autism: Proposed revision of global diagnostic manual raises concerns

Sarah Deweerdt | Spectrum | 
The proposed new version of the global manual for diagnosing medical conditions gets many things right about autism — but ...
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Pregnancy complications linked to higher risk of autism

Rachel Zamzow | Spectrum | 
High blood pressure or abnormal bleeding during pregnancy, as well as complications such as cesarean delivery or preterm birth, may ...
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Approval of marijuana treatment for epilepsy could be boost for autism research

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
The United States has approved, for the first time, a compound derived from marijuana to treat certain types of epilepsy ...
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Treating autism with serotonin

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
Boosting levels of the chemical messenger serotonin makes mice that model autism more social, according to a study published [August ...
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Why identifying suicide risk among people with autism is a challenge

Cheryl Weinstock | Spectrum | 
Studies over the past few years hint that suicidal ideation is more common in people with autism than in the ...
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Searching for signs of autism in early infant behavior

Nicholette Zeliadt | Spectrum | 
Fearfulness and shyness in babies and toddlers predict features of autism at age 7, according to a new study. But ...
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Differences in brain reward system may explain why autistic people are less interested in socialization

Sarah Deweerdt | Spectrum | 
The brain’s system for sensing pleasure and reward shows unusual activation patterns in people with autism, according to an analysis ...
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Autism diagnosis, treatment often complicated by accompanying conditions

Hannah Furfaro | Spectrum | 
More than half of people on the [autism] spectrum have four or more other conditions. The types of co-occurring conditions ...
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Increased autism risk linked to maternal high blood pressure and diabetes

Nicholette Zeliadt | Spectrum | 
Children born to women who had diabetes or high blood pressure while pregnant are at an increased risk of autism, ...
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Using brain ‘fingerprints’ to study and refine autism treatment

[T]he National Institutes of Health has been supporting research into the ‘human connectome’— the collection of information pathways in the ...
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Biosecurity dilemma: Should mega synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks be trusted to police its own industry?

Elie Dolgin | Spectrum | 
Try as a nefarious actor might, it would be near impossible to order the ingredients for making a deadly virus ...
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Viewpoint: Why we need better tools to identify depression in autistic people

Jacqui Rodgers, Sam Brice | Spectrum | 
Depression is more common among autistic people than it is among the general population, based on both clinical experience and ...
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Video games as treatment for autism: Do gains translate to real life?

Sarah Deweerdt | Spectrum | 
Over the past year, several small pilot studies have produced promising results for games designed to help children with autism, ...
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Why do young adults with autism have more health problems?

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
Young people with autism have more psychiatric and medical conditions than do their typical peers or those with attention deficit ...
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Treating brain damage and disorders with ‘wonder material’ graphene

Dexter Johnson | Spectrum | 
While graphene has been tapped to deliver on everything from electronics to optoelectronics, it’s a bit harder to picture how ...
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How our understanding of the behavioral characteristics of autism has evolved

Lina Zeldovich | Spectrum | 
You can draw a straight line from the initial descriptions of many conditions – claustrophobia, for example, or vertigo – ...
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Common autism syndrome linked to medical issues in ‘gut, eyes, heart and brain’

Alla Katsnelson | Spectrum | 
Mutations in a gene called ADNP result in a distinct syndrome that includes autism, intellectual disability and problems with the gut, eyes, ...
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Paternal connection: Some autism-linked mutations may come from unaffected fathers

Nicholette Zeliadt | Spectrum | 
Some children with autism carry rare mutations in DNA segments that flank genes and control their expression—and they tend to ...
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Autism treatment could be found through cancer drug

Jessica Wright | Spectrum | 
A low dose of a drug used to treat lymphoma may ease social problems in some forms of autism, a ...
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Viewpoint: Autism research needs a better mouse

James Noonan | Spectrum | 
The autism risk genes discovered to date are especially amenable to study in mouse models. Mice have analogous versions of ...
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