Other unusual parallels between prodigies and those with autism: they're both more likely to be male (though that finding may be due in part to the failure to recognize either girls on the autism spectrum or, perhaps, girls' hidden talents) and both are associated with difficult pregnancies, ...
Lastly, as mentioned earlier, animals can also serve as excellent training partners. Animal-assisted interventions have shown significant benefits across cognitive, psychological, and core characteristics of autism [53]. Specifically, horseback riding, besides its positive effects on cognitive, motor, and...
Translational Neuroscience of Social Impairment: What Do Animal Models of Neurogenetic Disorders Teach Us About Autism Spectrum Disorder?Lawrence K. Fung
On the one hand, this is not surprising, as many cognition tasks used in human and non-human animal (hereafter animal) research utilize experimental paradigms that are heavily reliant on vision. What is surprising is the lack of research on dog vision and visual perception, needed to justify ...
Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability? What work or task has the dog been trained to perform? No one has the right to ask you to identify your specific disability or ask that your pet demonstrate their skill. ...
’ Yes, trying to think about consciousness meant trying to fathom what—when we humans are the only fully conscious, reasoning, intelligent, extraordinarily clever, ‘can-get-a-man-on-the-Moon’ animal—is so intelligent and clever about being so competitive, selfish and aggressive; in fact,...
This study takes as a starting point the importance and dependence of the media to obtain information about the pandemic. The dependency theory of the media system was developed in the 1970s when mass media were the dominant source of information. Today, at a time when media choices have beco...
After scaring the daylights out of CNN’s audience, Hotez claimed there is a “coordinated” anti-vaccine “disinformation campaign” and insisted, “there is no relationship with any of these vaccines in autism.”–“And that’s why I get so frustrated with people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr...
“autism spectrum disorder” and “attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder” as search terms. While 86 SNPs were associated with ASD and 26 SNPs were associated with ADHD (pvalues <5.0 × 10−8), all of them were located on autosomal genes and none were identified on the X chromosome...
For reference, the black dotted line represents the estimated economic burden of one individual who develops a psychotic disorder calculated for a time span of 10 years. The area under the dotted line indicates an economic benefit since the costs of the preventive strategy to prevent one ...