An undergraduate student is working to develop an imaging analysis technique for the speedy diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, which could allow clinicians start treatment earlier than currently possible.

Background: Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is critical, because early intensive treatment greatly improves its prognosis. Methods: We review studies that examined vocalizations of infants with autism spectrum disorder and mouse models of autism spectrum disorder as a potential means to identify autism spectrum disorder before the symptomatic elements of autism spectrum disorder eme...

objective: autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty in verbal and non-verbal communication, impaired social interaction, and restricted and repetitive behavior. it has been recently introduced as a multigenic disorder with significant epigenetic effects on its pathology. recently, epigenetic silencing of retinoic acid receptorrelated orphan receptor alpha (rorα) gene ...

BACKGROUND In 2012, we published an overview of the prevalence of developmental disorders and neurological diseases in children in Norway, which was unknown at the time. In this article we will compare diagnostics and treatment across counties and institutions. MATERIAL AND METHOD The prevalence across counties of autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, epilepsy and cerebral palsy in children aged 0...

Introduction. Autism spectrum disorders are defined by behavioral and language atypias. Growing body of evidence indicates inflammatory mediators may contribute to the condition. Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) is naturally occurring and has been available as a nonprescription medical food supplement in Europe since 2008. PEA has been tested in thousands of human subjects without any noted signific...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES No clear therapeutic benefits of antipsychotics have been reported for the treatment of behavioural symptoms in autism. This systematic review provides an assessment of evidence for treating irritability in autism by aripiprazole. METHODS The databases of MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for relevant articles about the effect of aripiprazole in children ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are recognized as a major public health issue. Here, we evaluated the effects of folic acid intervention on methylation cycles and oxidative stress in autistic children enrolled in structured teaching. Sixty-six autistic children enrolled in this open-label trial and participated in three months of structured teaching. Forty-four children were treated with 400 μg...

The “FRIDA” framework is a guide for the agile development of accessible software users with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as tool strengthening emotional and social skills in treatment autism. It based on use skills, designed focus user intellectual disabilities. A mixed quasi-experimental study carried out three groups: children ASD, expert therapists ASD treatments designers adapting Desig...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impaired social communication, abnormal language development, restricted interests, and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors (Zoghbi and Bear, 2012; Ebert and Greenberg, 2013; Lai et al., 2014). These disorders show a high degree of clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Studies suggest that there is the ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairment in communication and language skills as well repetitive stereotyped behaviors. Early ASD diagnosis helps developing a meaningful outcome its treatment. Machine learning (ML) models can provide faster diagnostic capacity to determine patterns not observable humans through behavioral analysis. We applied the ML classification models, i...