A new study found that the cognitive skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) vary among individuals, and that, contrary to expectations, these skills can improve over time. The study examined 37 children with ASD and 31 children without ASD when the children were five or six years old, and again three years later.
12 Vote(s)
September 15, 2010
September 8, 2010
Autistic Toddlers Like Screensavers
Young children with autism prefer looking at geometric patterns over looking at other people. At least, some of them do. That's according to a new study - Preference for Geometric Patterns Early in Life As a Risk Factor for Autism.Pierce et al took 110 toddlers (age 14 to 42 months). Some of them had autism, some had "developmental delay" but not autism, and some were normally developing.The kids
14 Vote(s)
14 Vote(s)
Comments Off
September 7, 2010
Toddlers With Autism May Fix Their Eyes On Geometric Patterns Rather Than Children Playing
Children with autism may stare at geometric patterns when they are just 14 months old rather than look at kids playing around or doing yoga, say researchers in an article published in Archives of General Psychiatry. Children without autism prefer looking at other kids doing things, the authors added. Autism is known as a complex developmental disability...
9 Vote(s)
9 Vote(s)
Comments Off
August 19, 2010
Melatonin and Sleep Disorders in Children
I previously posted a study that found melatonin to be an effective treatment for insomnia among children with autism. This post has been accessed via Google search more than any other Brain Posts. It is apparent that many people are interested in the potential role of melatonin in treating sleep problems in children.There have been several research and clinical guideline manuscripts
8 Vote(s)
8 Vote(s)
Comments Off
August 13, 2010
Robots To Help Children With Autism
Interbots, Inc., a high-tech spin-off company associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center has teamed up with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to provide innovative robot-based therapy for children with autism...
14 Vote(s)
14 Vote(s)
Comments Off
June 23, 2010
Mothers of children with autism pay price in workplace
Mothers of children with autism see their careers disproportionally affected as they confront greater demands on their time, inflexible workplaces and increased medical costs, according to a new study.
5 Vote(s)
5 Vote(s)
Comments Off
June 3, 2010
Autism finding could lead to simple urine test for the condition
Children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine than non-autistic children, according to new research. The researchers suggest that their findings could ultimately lead to a simple urine test to determine whether or not a young child has autism.
13 Vote(s)
13 Vote(s)
Comments Off
May 26, 2010
Autism and white Matter/Myelination: the opposite of creativty/psychosis phenotype?
Image via WikipediaA new paper by Ben Bashat et al extends their earlier findings that had found that there was accelerated maturation of white matter in children with Autism. In this new paper they use Tract Based Spatial statistics (TBSS) to determine the white matter integrity of children (age around 3 years) with Autism as More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Creativity-psycho
21 Vote(s)
21 Vote(s)
Comments Off
May 19, 2010
Popular autism diet does not demonstrate behavioral improvement
A popular belief that specific dietary changes can improve the symptoms of children with autism was not supported by a tightly controlled study, which found that eliminating gluten and casein from the diets of children with autism had no impact on their behavior, sleep or bowel patterns.
9 Vote(s)
9 Vote(s)
Comments Off