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Mothers who had a fever while pregnant were more than twice as likely to have a child with autism than mothers who did not have a fever or who took medication to counter its effect.
Full story at Futurity
Researchers have used bone marrow transplants to halt the symptoms of Rett syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder, in mice.
Via Futurity
New research from the UK suggests people with autism have a greater than normal capacity for processing information.
Full story at Psych Central
The brain’s white matter may explain some of autism’s mysteries—from communication disorders to restricted interests.
Autism has long been a scientific enigma, mainly due to its diverse and seemingly unrelated symptoms, until now. The findings also have implications for a number of other psychiatric illnesses that involve white matter deficiencies, such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, and could provide a way to relate the anatomical deficiencies to thought processes.
Via Futurity
A new study has discovered significant differences in brain development between infants who go on to develop autism and those who do not. As early as 6 months of age, imaging scans show major changes take place in the brains of children who were later diagnosed with autism, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Full story at Futurity
One in six American children now has a developmental disability — a 17% increase over the past decade, driven largely by increases in autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to government researchers.
Full story at TIME
Asperger’s syndrome is named for Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician who lived in Vienna in the ’40s. American Psychiatric Association is proposing changes to the way autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed. According to the plan, when the DSM V—the fifth edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the profession’s standard diagnostic reference for mental disorders—is published next year, it will not contain Asperger’s syndrome at all.
Many doctors believe Asperger’s is significantly overdiagnosed.
Via The Daily Beast
