Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) What are Autistic Spectrum Disorders? ASD is a term used to acknowledge that there are a number of subgroups..
The present study focused on the long-term, persistent transcriptomic and epigenetic changes that could underlie divergent social phenotypes and effects of subchronic oxytocin treatment. In lieu of this focus, perfusion, brain dissection, and tissue collection were performed one day after completion of ...
This is all fairly new to the medical field, so it wouldn’t have been part of the training of many professionals. Even the so called expert in my town strikes me as a charlatan; he’s the go-to guy when someone needs an “expert”, but hearing how he is in practice I don’t ...
1) to identify the developmental patterns in metabolism that distinguish children with ASD, and 2) to identify the changes in metabolic networks that can be used as early biomarkers of risk and to gain new insights into the pathophysiologic mechanisms of ASD between birth and 5-years of age. ...
While it was previously considered a stand-alone diagnosis (separate from autism itself or another kind of autism previously known as “pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified,” or PDD-NOS) Asperger’s Syndrome now falls under the umbrella term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), in ...
I have been meaning for a while to respond to your last set of messages. Honestly, they got me down a little bit. Martin is still not as far along as [my friend’s recovering son], but in many areas it feels like we are getting so close to typical, and I have faith that we wi...
Another important advantage is that the same childrenreturn to the center to repeat the program every year whichcould allow us to conduct a long-term experiment. In thiswork, addressing the needs of a low-functioning autism incombination with ADHD was important due to a relativeneglect of robot...
(2009). A long-term study of children with autism playing with a robotic pet: Taking inspirations from non-directive play therapy to encourage childrens proactivity and initiative-taking. Interaction Studies,10(3), 324–373. Google Scholar Ganz, J. B., Hong, E. R., & Goodwyn, F. D....
The term “abnormal” when used in the context of organisms, tissues, cells or components thereof, refers to those organisms, tissues, cells or components thereof that differ in at least one observable or detectable characteristic (e.g., age, treatment, time of day, etc.) from those organism...
As used herein, unless explicitly stated otherwise or clearly implied otherwise, the term ‘about’ refers to a range of values plus or minus 10 percent, e.g. about 1.0 encompasses values from 0.9 to 1.1. As used herein, unless explicitly stated otherwise or clearly implied otherwise the ter...