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  Women Abused as Children More Likely to Have Children With Autism

  March 20, 2013 — Women who experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as children are more likely to have a child with autism than women who were not ... > full story
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  Humanoid Robot Helps Teach Children With Autism

  March 20, 2013 — An interdisciplinary team of mechanical engineers and autism experts have developed an adaptive robotic system and used it to demonstrate that humanoid robots can be powerful tools for enhancing the ... > full story
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  Atypical Brain Circuits May Cause Slower Gaze Shifting in Infants Who Later Develop Autism

  March 20, 2013 — Infants at 7 months of age who go on to develop autism are slower to reorient their gaze and attention from one object to another when compared to 7-month-olds who do not develop autism, and this ... > full story

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  Difficulty in Recognizing Faces in Autism Linked to Performance in a Group of Neurons

  March 18, 2013 — Neuroscientists have discovered a brain anomaly that explains why some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces -- a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions ... > full story
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  Drug Treatment Corrects Autism Symptoms in Mouse Model

  March 13, 2013 — Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers have used a newly discovered function of an old drug to restore cell communications in a mouse model of autism, ... > full story
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  Scientists Find Age-Related Changes in How Autism Affects the Brain

  March 13, 2013 — Autism spectrum disorders affect the brain activity of children and adults differently, according to new ... > full story
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  Punishment Can Enhance Performance, Academics Find

  March 13, 2013 — The stick can work just as well as the carrot in improving our performance, a team of academics has ... > full story
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  Autistic Children May Be at Greater Risk of Suicide Ideation and Attempts

  March 12, 2013 — Children with an autism spectrum disorder may be at greater risk for contemplating suicide or attempting suicide than children without autism, according to ... > full story
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  Mental Picture of Others Can Be Seen Using fMRI, Finds New Study

  March 5, 2013 — It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using ... > full story
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  Speech Emerges in Children on the Autism Spectrum With Severe Language Delay at Greater Rate Than Previously Thought

  March 4, 2013 — Study could reveals key predictors of speech gains. New findings reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a history of severe language delay, achieved phrase ... > full story

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