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3 December 2009Comments ( 0 )There are clinical, anatomical and genetic overlaps between autism and certain rare developmental disorders of the cerebellum, and these disorders may help understand autism, according to several studies published in the past year.
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30 November 2009Comments ( 0 )Studies on younger siblings of children with autism are finding that during tests of sensory or perceptual processing, these baby sibs show abnormally fast brain responses, rather than a delay.
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24 November 2009Comments ( 0 )Autism may be the result of faulty wiring that occurs during early brain development, according to two independent studies that looked at the origins of circuit disruption.
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20 November 2009Comments ( 3 )Deletions or duplications of chromosomal segment 16p11.2 — previously reported as a key autism region — are seen in people with developmental delays and speech and behavioral problems, but not necessarily autism. That's the finding from two large studies published last week of people carrying these rare genetic variations.
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18 November 2009Comments ( 0 )Deleting MeCP2, the gene that's mutated in Rett syndrome, alters both the size and function of neurons in the mouse brain — at least in one brain region, the locus ceruleus — according to a September 30 report in the Journal of Neuroscience.
