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Exposure to Antiepileptic Drug in Womb Linked to Autism Risk
January 31, 2013 Children whose mothers take the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate while pregnant are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, suggests a small ... > full story -
Potential Therapeutic Target to Treat Autism, Schizophrenia, and Epilepsy
January 28, 2013 Synapse development is promoted by a variety of cell adhesion molecules that connect neurons and organize synaptic proteins. Many of these adhesion molecules are linked to neurodevelopmental ... > full story -
Prenatal Inflammation Linked to Autism Risk
January 24, 2013 Maternal inflammation during early pregnancy may be related to an increased risk of autism in children, according to new findings. Researchers found this in children of mothers with elevated ... > full story -
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Inherited Mutations in Autism
January 23, 2013 While autism clearly runs in some families, few inherited genetic causes have been found. A major reason is that these causes are so varied that it's hard to find enough people with a given mutation ... > full storyMore: -
Some Children Lose Autism Diagnosis: Small Group With Confirmed Autism Now on Par With Mainstream Peers
January 15, 2013 Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a new study has confirmed. The research team made the finding by ... > full story -
New Autism-Related Gene Variants Discovered
January 14, 2013 Genetics researchers have identified 25 copy number variations (CNVs) that occur in some patients with autism. While individually rare, these CNVs are “high impact,” strongly increasing a ... > full story -
Impaired Coordination of Brain Activity in Autism Involves Local, as Well as Long-Range, Signaling
January 14, 2013 A new autism study has found that local functional connectivity of the brain -- the extent to which activity within a small region is coordinated -- is reduced in individuals with autism spectrum ... > full story -
Protein Identified That Can Disrupt Embryonic Brain Development and Neuron Migration
January 14, 2013 Interneurons – nerve cells that function as ‘dimmers’ – play an important role in the brain. Their formation and migration to the cerebral cortex during the embryonic stage of ... > full story -
New Discovery in Autism-Related Disorder Reveals Key Mechanism in Brain Development and Disease
January 14, 2013 A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder, Timothy syndrome, and observed defects in ... > full story -
Clinical Trial Finds Intensive Treatment Highly Effective for Children With High-Functioning Autism
January 11, 2013 A new program has been found to be highly effective for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders ... > full story
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