Tag: diagnosis
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spotlightIn the fall of 1980, when he left his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, for undergraduate studies at Cornell University in upstate New York, John Constantino was determined to pursue one of two careers: a doctor or a school teacher.
“If I didn’t make it in med school, I figured being a...→
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workshop reportWorkshop organizers: Nancy Kanwisher, Cathy Lord New York; September 7-8, 2008
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Goal:
To characterize the cognitive phenotype, the set of cognitive abilities that are impaired or spared in autism spectrum disorders.
Summary:
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior. Because there are no biological markers for...→
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classic paperIt took 50 years for scientists to develop instruments reliable enough to be considered the gold standards for diagnosing autism.
Autism has always been around, but it was not until the mid-1940s that Leo Kanner in the United States and Hans Asperger in Austria, both physicians, independently described children with what we...→
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blogEarlier this week, at a staff meeting at the foundation, we were talking, as we often do, about the relationship between genes and autism, and the tenuous, ill-understood connections between the two.
We’re a diverse bunch here, with diverse educational backgrounds — spanning all the way from director Gerry Fischbach to admin...→
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spotlightIn the late 1960s, as an undergraduate student in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, Cathy Lord spent a couple of hours a day teaching two young boys with autism.
She was working for clinical psychologist Ole Ivar Lovaas, one of a few doctors who believed in behavioral therapy for...→
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newsEvery day, Tamarack O’Donnell works with children who span the range of disorders on the autism spectrum. Some children flap their hands and cannot engage even in basic social interactions; others are visibly intelligent and have only mild eccentricities, such as eating only out of a green bowl.
After working with 100...→
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newsFor much of the twentieth century, autism was considered childhood schizophrenia.
Shared problems with language and social interaction lumped them together. Doctors thought as the children grew older, they simply became more psychotic and delusional.
But, in 1943, Leo Kanner, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, suggested that children who have an “innate...→
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newsThe eyes, so goes the ancient proverb, are the window to the soul. Sophisticated machines that track vision suggest that eyes may also be the window to autism.
In the fall of 2002, clinicians at the Yale Child Study Center were testing 15-month-old Helen*** for developmental disorders. For most of her life,...→
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newsBy the time children reach their third birthdays, their behavior can reliably predict whether they have an autism spectrum disorder.
But newer techniques promise to diagnose autism in children who are younger than two years old, and perhaps before they turn one, according to a report published in March1. Several researchers...→
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blogOne of the most startling statistics in autism is the prevalence: 1 in 150 children. That number is routinely cited to make the case that autism is now an epidemic, and that it is swiftly on the rise.
But another theory holds that this rise is at least in part attributable to...→
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