Autism Prevalence at 1 in 50 for School-Age Children There are as many as one in 50 school age children in the U.S. diagnosed with autism, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a 72 percent increase from 2007. However, researchers attribute the rise to improved detection [...]
There is a planned hearing set later this month by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on rising autism rates and the federal government’s response. Rep. Darrell Issa (D-Calif.),The panel chair, has invited witnesses from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other advocacy groups. [...]
Recent discoveries in autism research and epigenetics could soon make a clinical difference for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and other conditions, according to an expert. The implications go beyond targeting treatment for an individual child in your practice based on a specific genetic mutation, Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the center for [...]
Autism Conference Address: Bridging the Gap Between Families and Therapists: One of the most challenging, sensitive and complex treatment modes when working with children on the autistic spectrum is the home intervention program. This is a behavioral approach which actually takes place in the home of the child with special needs (this program is also known [...]
A study led by Dr. Eric Hollander, Director of the Autism Spectrum Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center and Chairman of the ICare4Autism Advisory Council found the antidepressant fluoxetine alleviated repetitive behavior and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in adults with autism, reducing these defining symptoms of the disorder. Dr. Hollander will be speaking on [...]
A recent study has found several genes associated with autism and discovered evidence for a shared genetic mechanism in both autism and fragile X syndrome. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition involving changes in part of the X chromosome and is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability.
A simple urine test could lead to earlier autism diagnoses after researchers used it to identify one-third of the children with autism spectrum disorder in a new study. Furthermore, this kind of research could lead to better treatments for a subset of children with elevated levels of certain compounds in their urine, said James Woods, [...]
Last week we covered autoimmunity and autism in relation to the S100B protein. A University of Kansas Medical Center study has found significantly lower levels of several cytokines, the immune system’s messengers and regulators, in the plasma of children with autism disorder (AD) compared to that of unrelated healthy siblings from other families who had [...]
