Massive Effort Planned To Map Visual Brain in Mice
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17 April 2012
A Newsletter from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
NEWS Massive effort planned to map visual brain in mice Study finds grammar tics in children with autism WORKSHOP REPORT Workshop report: Regression in autism IN BRIEF Clinical research: Drug improves quality of life with autism Cognition and behavior: Language defect identified in autism Genetics: Language gene may regulate autism, schizophrenia TOOLBOX Software profiles social interactions between mice BLOG Maternal obesity Tracing touch
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Massive effort planned to map visual brain in mice
A ten-year initiative announced last month by the Allen Institute for Brain Science aims to catalog the development, structure and function of neural circuits in the brain at an unprecedented level of detail.
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Study finds grammar tics in children with autism
Children with autism don't follow certain grammatical rules, according to one
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of the few studies of the disorder from the field of linguistics, published online 21 March in Applied Psycholinguistics.
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WORKSHOP REPORT
Workshop report: Regression in autism
On 13 February, SFARI hosted a workshop to explore whether children with regression are a unique subgroup within the autism spectrum, and concluded that most children with autism show a gradual decline in skills rather than an abrupt loss of abilities.
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IN BRIEF
Clinical research: Drug improves quality of life with autism
Aripiprazole, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat irritability in children with autism, may also improve their overall healthrelated quality of life, according to a retrospective analysis of two clinical trials. The results were published 21 March in Clinical Therapeutics.
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Cognition and behavior: Language defect identified in autism
Children who have both autism and intellectual disability may understand fewer words than their speaking skills suggest, which is not the case for typically developing children or those with intellectual disability alone. The results were published 21 February in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Read More >
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Genetics: Language gene may regulate autism, schizophrenia
FOXP2, a protein linked to language development that regulates the expression of some autism-associated genes, also dampens expression of DISC1, mutations in which have been linked to both schizophrenia and autism. The results were published 20 March in Human Molecular Genetics.
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TOOLBOX
Software profiles social interactions between mice
A computerized video analysis tool can simultaneously track two mice and catalog their social interactions. The results were published 4 March Nature Methods.
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BLOG
Maternal obesity
A new study, published in the journal Pediatrics, made headlines this past week by suggesting that motherhood obesity may increase the risk of autism in children.
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Tracing touch
People with autism have a different brain response to different textures, according to a study that is part of a growing effort to measure the sensory difficulties associated with the disorder.
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