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Eyes: A New Window on Mental Disorders
jerry submitted, created time 2 weeks 6 days (www.sciam.com)
Clues about autism, Williams syndrome and the social brain come from tracking eye movements. This method may be useful, researchers say, because it is not necessary for the participant to understand or even know what the researcher is doing. 
Study Dispels Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 day (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hoping to dispel long-running concerns that autism is linked to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), researchers now say a new study shows the childhood vaccine does not raise that risk.
Oxytocin may inhibit social phobia
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.news-medical.net)
Swedish and British scientists have shown using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the hormone oxytocin can inhibit feelings of anxiety in specific individuals. Their discovery might lead to a better understanding and the improved treatment of psychiatric affections in which people feel distressed when meeting others, such as in cases of autism and social phobia.
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that is secreted by the body during massage, childbirth and breastfeeding to induce a calming, analgesic effect
Cheleation therapy and autism--is it worth the trouble?
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
Cheleation therapy involves injecting the patient with dimercaptosuccinic acid or some other agent that can bind to metal ions. The bound ions are then eliminated by the body. Cheleation therapy is used, successfully, in heavy metal poisoning. Now people are pushing for its use with autistic children.
For years, the idea that vaccines cause autism has taken center stage. The rationale is that the mercury used as a preservative (or more specifically, that USED to be used as a preservative) was poisoning the children and interrupting their brain development
Identifying MAP/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 1 (MARK1) as a susceptibility gene for autism
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 1 week (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are common, heritable, but genetically heterogeneous neurodevelopmental conditions. The researchers recently defined a susceptibility locus for ASDs on chromosome 1q41-q42. They found that MARK1 was overexpressed in the prefrontal cortex (BA46) but not in cerebellar granule cells, on postmortem brain tissues from patients. Thus, MARK1 overexpression in humans may be responsible for subtle changes in dendritic functioning.
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)
Parents worried that vaccines trigger autism are increasingly declining the shots for their kids. That's raising fears that long-dormant diseases could return. What the science says about the real risks—and what you should do.
Sixty-four cases of measels in the U.S., all but one in unvaccinated patients
Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 1 day (www.nytimes.com)
Measels is on the rise in the U.S. There have been sixty-four cases this year alone. Only one of these patients can be shown to have had the vaccine. There have been no fatalities so far.
Sixteen of these children are from families who declined vaccination for religious or other resasons, including fear of autism
Vaccine Injury Case Offers a Clue to the Causes of Autism
jane2007 submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)
Could a group of disorders involving the power plants of the cell explain why some vaccinated children develop autism but the vast majority don't?
Sex and Drugs and Singing Mice
Vincent submitted, created time 6 months 2 days (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Mice can whistle and chirp like birds--and researchers now say their songs seem to be happy ones. New experiments associate the rodents' ultrasonic chatter with the brain's dopamine-based reward system, and investigators hope that studying the songs may eventually point toward genes behind human emotional disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.
Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
I would like to nominate ABC and all the other anti-vaccine elements who decided to ignore the science and play up that hype: Twelve kids in San Francisco just got measels, nine of them because their parents thought that the vaccines were too dangerous.
Let's see... What are the dangers of NOT vaccinating the kids? Pneumonia, brain swelling, and -- oh what was that other one -- DEATH!! One contributor put it very well. Because vaccines became so widespread during the twentieth century, the parents have never seen measels and don't know how dangerous it is
Mouse model could provide clues to autistic behaviors
jane2007 submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (news-service.stanford.edu)
A study focused on mice missing the gabrb3 gene have developed a new mouse model to help illuminate the vagaries of autism.
Are Immune System Molecules Brain-Builders—And Destroyers?
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 2 days (www.sciam.com)
Researchers stumble across immune proteins that play an unexpected—and very different—role in the brain. These findings provide a new window into the way the brain operates and why certain enigmatic disorders such as autism and Alzheimer's disease may develop, potentially paving the way for new therapies to treat them.
Infant study casts doubt on vaccine-autism link
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 5 days (www.reuters.com)
The mercury in a vaccine preservative is pumped out of a baby's body too quickly for it to do any damage, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study they say should further absolve shots of causing autism.
Vaccine-autism link discredited in NEJM, given full weight on ABC
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.usatoday.com)
The premiere episode of Eli Stone, in which a mother wins a $5.2 million lawsuit charging her son got autism from a vaccine, is stirring controversy before it airs.
Structural Variation of Chromosomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Charles submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.ajhg.org)
Autism (MIM 209850) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests in the first three years of life. The group of pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), also termed autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), includes autism as well as PDD-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger's disorder. The three core characteristics of the ASDs are impairments of reciprocal social interactions, problems in communication, and a restricted range of behaviors and interests. Asperger's disorder differs from autism in that individuals have an absence of clinically significant cognitive and language delay
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