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Mother’s Sensitivity May Help Language Development in Children With Autism

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A study from the University of Miami suggests that maternal sensitivity, understood as a combo of affection, responsiveness to the child’s needs, structuring support and education, and the ability to manage presence-absence to foster independency; may influence the development and acquisition of language among children with autism or potentially at risk. Even though parenting does [...]

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Brain difference linked to autism

Researchers from the University of North Carolina made an interest discovery. They found out that the amygdala in toddlers with autism is 13 percent larger than the one in unaffected kids. It is believed that during the last part of the first year of life, some kids’ amygdala starts to grow. This could also explain [...]

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Blue Laser could lead to Autism cure

Discovery News published very promising and interesting news. One characteristic of people with Autism, AD/HD and Schizophrenia, is that in their cerebral activity either don’t have gamma waves at all, or they are very irregular. The idea is to induce gamma ray activity in the brain by triggering lasers set in specific frequencies. April 29, 2009 [...]

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Interactive Autism Network Opens Its Doors To Adults With Autism

The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) is an innovative online project bringing together tens of thousands of people affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and hundreds of researchers in a search for answers. Individuals with ASD and their families can share information in a secure setting to become part of the largest online autism research effort [...]

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New research sheds new light on Autism´s origins

Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Children´s Center suggests that one of the origins of Autism could reside in antibodies (interfering with the fetal brain directly) produced by the mother during pregnancy, suggesting that the mother´s immune system could be a trigger or a factor in those already predisposed. Link to full article by Sciencedaily.com [...]

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Discovery in autism could improve diagnostic efficiency

Autism Disorder is one of the most elussive conditions a mental health professional can come across. Firstly, it is difficult to precisely diagnose due to it´s broad severity spectrum (depending on very subtle manifestations and timing of the condition it could be filed under Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome. And sometimes this subtle differences are [...]

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