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AgeneBio's HOPE4MCI Phase 3 trial receives support from NIH

AgeneBio, a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for unserved patients battling neurodegeneration, announced today that its HOPE4MCI Phase 3 clinical trial has received support from the National Institutes of Health.

15 Sep 2015

Innovative mouse study could lead to advances in understanding autism

They don't use gondolas or croon like Sinatra. But scientists have known for a long time that male mice belt out something like love songs to females when the time seems right to them.

14 Sep 2015

Interpregnancy intervals may increase autism risk, shows Kaiser Permanente study

Second-born children who are conceived sooner than two years or later than six years after the arrival of their older sibling have a substantially increased risk of autism spectrum disorders, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal Pediatrics.

14 Sep 2015

UCLA-led initiative that aims to provide better care for children with autism gets $10 million grant

A UCLA-led initiative to provide better treatment for children with autism in under-served areas has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. The program aims to bring evidence-based research practices to communities throughout the U.S.

9 Sep 2015

Study: Men and women with autism perform differently on 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test

Scientists at the University of Cambridge University have published new results in the journal PLoS ONE from the largest ever study of people with autism taking the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test.

7 Sep 2015

Simple checklist to help parents determine their children’s school environment

Grassroots Environmental Education, a science-based environmental health non-profit organization based in New York, has issued a simple three-point checklist for parents of school-age children to help them determine if their child's school environment is as healthy as it can be.

4 Sep 2015

New model of cognitive flexibility may help understand behavioral, neurological disorders

Cognitive flexibility is the ability to shift our thoughts and adapt our behavior to the changing environment. In other words, it's one's ability to disengage from a previous task and respond effectively to a new one.

4 Sep 2015

New NIH grants support research that combines DNA sequence information and electronic medical records

A dozen awards from the National Institutes of Health will support research that incorporates DNA sequence information into electronic medical records. The goal of research conducted by the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network is to better understand the genomic basis of disease and to tailor medical care to individual patients based on their genomic differences.

2 Sep 2015

Advanced genetic testing can help identify discrete forms of ASD

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are not completely understood neurodevelopmental disorders diagnosed solely on the basis of behavioral assessments of social, communicative and repetitive symptoms. T

2 Sep 2015

Researchers reveal how the brain manages multitasking

What makes someone better at switching between different tasks? Looking for the mechanisms behind cognitive flexibility, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany's Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and Charité University Medicine Berlin have used brain scans to shed new light on this question.

2 Sep 2015

New testing methods may help identify genetic mutations potentially linked to autism among children

The use of two newer genetic testing technologies (chromosomal microarray analysis and whole-exome sequencing) among children with autism spectrum disorder may help identify genetic mutations potentially linked to the disorder, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA.

2 Sep 2015

ECHO Autism program to be expanded to additional 10 sites

Dr. Kristin Sohl, a pediatrician at the University of Missouri Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, will expand the growing ECHO Autism program, which launched in March, to an additional 10 sites.

2 Sep 2015

Autism Speaks launches web-based portal for MSSNG database

Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, today launched the web-based portal for its MSSNG database, making the resource available to researchers worldwide.

1 Sep 2015

Researchers uncover important cellular functions that help regulate inflammation

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have uncovered key cellular functions that help regulate inflammation -- a discovery that could have important implications for the treatment of allergies, heart disease, and certain forms of cancer.

28 Aug 2015

UiO researchers test new nasal spray device for treating mental illness

Researchers at the University of Oslo have tested a new device for delivering hormone treatments for mental illness through the nose. This method was found to deliver medicine to the brain with few side effects.

27 Aug 2015

Researchers reveal new pathway that governs proper sorting of essential synaptic proteins in neurons

Genetic analysis of human patients has shown that mutations in genes involved in synaptic communication can drive neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases such as autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer's disease.

20 Aug 2015

NIH grants Clinical and Translational Science Award to UC San Diego

The Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) at University of California, San Diego has received a five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) for approximately $52 million from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science, part of the National Institutes of Health.

19 Aug 2015

CMU BrainHub scientists use non-invasive brain-imaging tool to detect basal ganglia pathways

Certain diseases, like Parkinson's and Huntingdon's disease, are associated with damage to the pathways between the brain's basal ganglia regions. The basal ganglia sits at the base of the brain and is responsible for, among other things, coordinating movement. It is made up of four interconnected, deep brain structures that imaging techniques have previously been unable to visualize.

18 Aug 2015

CMU engineers awarded NSF grant to study neural variability in motor learning

When we move, we rarely move in the exact same way twice. The National Science Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Steven Chase and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Byron Yu, and their long-time collaborator, University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor of Bioengineering Aaron Batista, an $869,000 grant to conduct basic research that will establish how variability in movement is encoded in the brain and how this variability contributes to learning and performance.

13 Aug 2015

Loss of critical receptor in the brain may be responsible for autism, schizophrenia

The loss of a critical receptor in a special class of inhibitory neurons in the brain may be responsible for neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and schizophrenia, according to new research by Salk scientists.

12 Aug 2015

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Latest Autism News and Research

AgeneBio's HOPE4MCI Phase 3 trial receives support from NIH

Innovative mouse study could lead to advances in understanding autism

Interpregnancy intervals may increase autism risk, shows Kaiser Permanente study

UCLA-led initiative that aims to provide better care for children with autism gets $10 million grant

Study: Men and women with autism perform differently on 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test

Simple checklist to help parents determine their children’s school environment

New model of cognitive flexibility may help understand behavioral, neurological disorders

New NIH grants support research that combines DNA sequence information and electronic medical records

Advanced genetic testing can help identify discrete forms of ASD

Researchers reveal how the brain manages multitasking

New testing methods may help identify genetic mutations potentially linked to autism among children

ECHO Autism program to be expanded to additional 10 sites

Autism Speaks launches web-based portal for MSSNG database

Researchers uncover important cellular functions that help regulate inflammation

UiO researchers test new nasal spray device for treating mental illness

Researchers reveal new pathway that governs proper sorting of essential synaptic proteins in neurons

NIH grants Clinical and Translational Science Award to UC San Diego

CMU BrainHub scientists use non-invasive brain-imaging tool to detect basal ganglia pathways

CMU engineers awarded NSF grant to study neural variability in motor learning

Loss of critical receptor in the brain may be responsible for autism, schizophrenia

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