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Distance Education for Parents of Children With Autism Found Effective
February 1, 2010 — Through the use of instructional DVDs, parents of children with autism can learn how to teach their child to communicate and improve their behavior, according to new ... > full story -
Combined Approach May Be Better Way to Treat Autism
January 28, 2010 — Children with autism would likely receive better treatment if supporters of the two major teaching methods stopped bickering over theory and focused on a combined approach, a psychologist argues in a ... > full story -
Babies' Brains Tuned to Sharing Attention With Others
January 26, 2010 — Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention, according to new research. The findings suggest that the human brain develops ... > full story -
How to Measure Attention Span of a Fly: Implications for ADHD, Autism in Humans
January 26, 2010 — An Australian-German team of scientists has found a way to measure the attention span of a fly. The findings could lead to further advances in the understanding of attention-deficit hyperactivity ... > full story -
Ask the Non-Experts About Autism Detection in Infants
January 21, 2010 — In a research project about early autism detection in infants, psychologists are working with non-expert coders to observe and provide data during experiments. The project shows that non-experts can ... > full story -
Communication Problems in the Brain
January 20, 2010 — For brain cells to communicate, the contacts to each other must function. The protein molecule neuroligin-1 plays an important role in this as it stimulates the necessary maturation processes at the ... > full story -
Gene Linked to Schizophrenia May Reduce Cancer Risk
January 19, 2010 — A specific form of a gene that puts people on the road to schizophrenia may protect against some forms of ... > full story -
More Evidence That Autism Is a Brain 'Connectivity' Disorder
January 10, 2010 — Studying a rare disorder that also causes autism in 25-50 percent of affected patients, new research supports the emerging idea that autism results from disrupted brain "connectivity" causing ... > full story -
Brain Imaging May Help Diagnose Autism
January 8, 2010 — Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) process sound and language a fraction of a second slower than children without ASDs, and measuring magnetic signals that mark this delay may become a ... > full story -
Canine Compulsive Disorder Gene Identified in Dogs; Shares Family With Recently Targeted Gene for Autism in Humans
January 6, 2010 — A canine chromosome 7 locus that confers a high risk of compulsive disorder susceptibility has been ... > full story
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