| Autism - Autism diagnoses in children as young as 14 months appears to be remarkably stable |
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May 13, 2019 |
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The latest autism news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Raising Awareness for Autism
Pittcon's charity focus for 2019 was the PEAL Center. People with autism are often perceived as being different, and the PEAL Center is striving to teach people that autism spectrum disorder should not be viewed negatively, to advocate their integration into society and to enhance employment opportunities.
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| | |  Research presented at INSAR 2019 suggests that autism estimates are wildly inaccurate as they do not involve sufficient data on families from ethnic minority backgrounds. | | | | |  Up to 80 percent of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems. The source of these problems has been as much of a mystery as the exact causes of ASD, which scientists are still working to unravel. A new study led by a team of neuroscientists at Washington State University has brought scientists closer to identifying the causes of disturbed sleep in autism. | | | | |  Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are often lumped into a single catch-all group, despite significant differences in symptom profile and severity. | | | | |  Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with no known drug treatment up until now. Researchers have finally found tweaking certain hormones could help patients with autism. There were two independent clinical trials including children and adults with autism that altered the effects of the hormone vasopressin and to assess the effects on social functioning. | | | | |  An international team led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autistic-like behavior in adult mice and exposure to a common antidepressant in the womb. | |
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