Search results for autistic tendencies
Rutgers researcher examines connections between vision and movement
Oct 08, 2008 |
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A hand moves forward, but is it a friendly gesture or one meant to do harm? In an instant, we respond -- either extending our arm forward to shake hands or raising it higher to protect our face. But what are the subtle cues ...
Autistic children can interpret mental states when facial expressions are animated
Mar 26, 2007 |
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Autistic children have long been thought to have difficulty interpreting people’s mental states based on facial expressions, especially expressions around the eyes. Some researchers believe that this lack of ability could ...
Study: Fever may ease autism for a while
Dec 24, 2007 |
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Anecdotes about fevers triggering "normal" behavior in autistic children now have a scientific study to back them, researchers in Baltimore report.
New genetic study of Asperger syndrome, autistic traits and empathy
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of Cambridge have identified 27 genes that are associated with either Asperger Syndrome (AS) and/or autistic traits and/or empathy. The research will be published tomorrow in the journal Autism Re ...
'The eyes have it' -- Autism research yields surprising results
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Autistic children are able to interpret the mental state of others by looking at their eyes, contrary to previous research, a new University of Nottingham study has found.
Scientist designs language development toy for autistic children
Feb 27, 2007 |
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Helma van Rijn has developed a toy that uses a new method for teaching words to autistic children. She developed this toy as part of her graduation project at Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Industrial Design ...
Autistic children could learn through stereotypes
Jun 18, 2007 |
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Autistic children have a capacity to understand other people through stereotypes, say scientists at UCL (University College London). The research shows that autistic children are just as able as others to predict people’s ...
Research suggests children can recover from autism
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder. His progress is part of a growing body of research that suggests at least 10 percent of children with autism ...
Study finds regions of DNA that appear linked to autistic spectrum disorders
May 09, 2007 |
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Using an innovative statistical approach, a research team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California, Los Angeles, has identified two regions of DNA linked to autism. They ...
Study supports theory that rise in autism is related to changes in diagnosis
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Research funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests that many children diagnosed with severe language disorders in the 1980s and 1990s would today be diagnosed as having autism. The research supports the theory that the rise in ...
New approach to detect autism earlier
Jan 24, 2008 |
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A new way of understanding autistic disorders, incorporating both psychological and biological factors, could lead to the conditions being picked up earlier, research from UNSW has found.
The matrix of autism
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2007 |
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Autistic children are doubly stigmatized. On the one hand, they are often dismissed as “low functioning” or mentally retarded, especially if they have poor speaking skills as many do. Yet when autistics do show exceptional ...
The Queen and I: How autistic brain distinguishes oneself from others
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the brains of individuals with autism are less active when engaged in self-reflective thought. The study published today in the journal Brain provid ...
People affected by autism believe increase is 'real,' not diagnostic
Dec 09, 2009 |
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There has been a major increase in the number of children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders over the last two decades - the question is why? Researchers have found a sharp difference between the beliefs of ordinary ...
Older men risk siring autistic kids
Sep 05, 2006 |
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A joint U.S.-British study says men aged 40 and older are far more likely to father autistic children than those younger than 30.
