Tag: ssc
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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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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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newsFollowing a series of papers in the past two years, what seems irrefutable is that copy number variations — in which a particular stretch of DNA is either deleted or duplicated — are important in autism1,2.
Already, “CNVs are the most common cause of autism that we can identify today,...→
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newsIn June 2003, more than a dozen of the country’s leading autism experts met for an unusual ‘Autism Think Tank’ in New York City. Over two days, they sat at one large table, brainstorming research ideas in genetics, brain imaging, neurophysiology — anything that might help propel the field toward a...→
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