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A neuroimaging and behavioral study published in The Journal of Neuroscience identifies why many autistic individuals struggle to adapt to shifting environmental demands. Researchers from Nottingham Trent University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that autistic individuals display significantly weaker neural responses to negative feedback and reduced sensitivity to internal decision confidence. This dual blunting of external correction and internal certainty impairs dynamic behavioral updating.
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Federal regulators are green-lighting a new tool designed to help clinicians identify children with autism. Clinicians can upload video and audio from typical behavioral assessments to a portal. The tool measures facial expressions, voice patterns, eye gaze and more to evaluate how a child’s behavior compares to children with and without autism. The results are intended to be considered in conjunction with “other findings and professional judgment.”
#autismdiagnosis
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Halloween falls on Saturday this year, which means families still have time for a practice run at their own front door. Starting now gives parents of kids with autism, ADHD, or sensory differences time to address the parts that often go wrong.
#autismhalloween #sensoryissues
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The new figure is a decrease from the CDC’s previous estimate of 27 percent, published in 2023. The new estimate relies on an updated, more precise definition of profound autism that includes adaptive scores, which contributed to the drop.
#profoundautism #autismdiagnosis
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Register for our next free webinar Nov 11th. Then tune in and learn about current research on highly processed foods and development.
#specialdiets #autismnutrition #ultraprocessedfood
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Participants went through the full airport process, including checking in, receiving boarding passes, passing through security, finding their gate and boarding the aircraft.
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In a study published today in Nature, researchers identified hundreds of new microexons—short gene segments that appear to play a key role in autism and other neurological conditions—and developed a machine learning approach to predict the impact of autism-associated genetic variants on the regulation of these segments.
#autismgenetics
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A new study reveals that the wide variety of sensory experiences reported by autistic individuals corresponds to distinct patterns of information exchange in the brain. Researchers found that specific functional connections between cortical and subcortical brain regions can predict an autistic child’s sensory profile.
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"Some people are more reactive to sensory input, some people are less, and it's just more likely that those who are more reactive also have a developmental condition."
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Tune in tomorrow for our free webinar, "The Immune System in Autism".
This lecture will cover immune system dysregulation in individuals with autism and associations between autism severity and immune function. Autism is associated with a wide spectrum of atypical immune functions involving autophagy, innate immune activation, NK, T-cell and B-cell responses, and tolerance. At the same time, autism is associated with alteration of a variety of immune-related factors, including oxidative stress, phase-II metabolism, zinc metabolism, heavy metal metabolism, and the gut microbiome. Gut microbial metabolites, in particular, serve as effective biomarkers for autism, perhaps providing a starting point for understanding common factors underlying the spectrum disorder.
Register: autism.org/webinar/the-immun…
Experiencing both autism and ADHD each day is a constant neurological tug-of-war which can lead to burn out. Learn more about the lived experience of AuDHD adults from Dr. Wenn Lawson's recent webinar on the subject. Watch the free recording and access related resources, presenter information, and more at: autism.org/webinar/autism-ad…
In the study, one group participated in therapeutic horseback riding. Another completed horse-themed barn activities using a life-sized stuffed toy horse. The third group was placed on a waitlist and received neither activity during the study period. Children who participated in therapeutic horseback riding showed significantly greater improvement in hyperactivity than those in either comparison group.
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America’s public education system offers some of the world's best services and protections for students with disabilities, guaranteed by federal law. But more parents are abandoning their rights to those services. They say public schools are failing their kids and they’re better off trying to educate them at home.
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Catch up on the latest autism research news with the Transmitter's weekly research "round up". #autismnews #autismresearch
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital, and collaborating institutions have identified new genetic candidates that help explain why autism is diagnosed about four times more often in boys than in girls.
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Tune in tomorrow for our free webinar, "Decoding Face Processing in Autism," presented by Jason W. Griffin, PhD
This talk presents novel approaches to analyzing eye-tracking and EEG data that have strong potential to advance our understanding of social perception in autism. These methods can provide intermediate mechanisms for behavioral change over time and may improve sensitivity to intervention-related change.
Register: autism.org/webinar/decoding-…
Four conditions -- maternal overweight and obesity, depression, asthma, and pregnancy complications -- show racial and ethnic differences in the magnitude of their association with autism. All of these conditions had stronger associations with autism in white mothers than Black, Hispanic, or Asian and Pacific Islander mothers.
#autismrisk #pregnancy #mentalhealth #obesity
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A study tracking outcomes from childhood to young adulthood found distinct developmental patterns linking genetic liability for ADHD, autism and depression with peer relationships, suicidality, education and employment.
#autismgenetics #ADHDgenes
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Gene activity across 17 autism mouse models occurs in either of two opposing transcriptomic states, supporting the idea that diverse genetic changes may converge on a few recurring biological patterns.
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