Tuesday, September 9, 2014
A small, preliminary study of a parent-based intervention has found that six out of seven infants at risk for autism made so much progress that by age 3, they did not have autism or developmental delays.
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Researchers have discovered an excessive number of synapses in the brains of some children and teens with autism, which they believe may help explain the disorder.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Parents of children with autism are more likely to have some traits of the disorder than parents of unaffected children, according to a new study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Monday, June 23, 2014
A new study found that pregnant women who lived near fields where agricultural pesticides were applied were more likely to have children with autism or developmental delay.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
A small study has shown that children with severe autism have problems with infection-fighting cells called granulocytes. Their granulocytes are less efficient at fighting infection than the same cells in children who don't have autism. The granulocytes of the children with autism had a dysfunction in the mitochondria, the part of the cell that generates energy, among other things.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
A large study in Sweden found that heredity accounted for half of the risk of autism, with unspecified environmental factors accounting for the rest of the risk in a population.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
A new study refutes the idea that people with autism are not affected by loneliness. In fact, adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can experience negative consequences of loneliness, as can people who don't have autism, according to research by a University of Missouri psychologist.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The number of children diagnosed with autism has grown by almost 30 percent, from 1 in 88 children two years ago to 1 in 68 today, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Thursday, February 27, 2014
A large study from Sweden found that the children born to fathers aged 45 and older were at greater risk of having autism and several psychiatric disorders than the children whose fathers were in their early 20s.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Mothers of children with autism use different parenting techniques than mothers of children who don't have the developmental disorder, according to a new study. When parenting a child with autism, the moms rely less on discipline to enforce rules and more on reinforcing desired behaviors, which the researchers called "positive parenting."