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Autism Phenome Project announces first results at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

The Asia Pacific Autism Conference is ongoing in Perth Australia. Prof. David Amaral of the Mind Institute at U.C. Davis (California) will speak and present the first results from the Autism Phenome Project. This is a study to separate autism into various groups, or phenomes. Here is a blurb from the press announcement for the [...]

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Autism Baby Siblings Study: recurrence risk 19%

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Results of the MIND Institute’s baby sibling study have been published in the journal Pediatrics. The study puts the recurrence risk of autism at 19%. In other words, a family with one autistic child has, on average, a 19% chance that a subsequent child will be autistic. The study authors stress that the risk may [...]

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Onset patterns in autism: correspondence between home video and parent report

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Regression is a major topic in autism. Children who lose abilities at a very young age. In Onset patterns in autism: correspondence between home video and parent report, Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D. and a team of researchers at the U.C. Davis MIND Institute looked at the developmental trajectories of children, autistic and non autistic. They reviewed [...]

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So what do parents really think causes autism?

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

According to the MIND institute, presenting at IMFAR: The two most common causes of autism cited among all parents was an environmental cause (51%) and/or a genetic cause (51%). Vaccines (22%) were the third most commonly believed etiological factor, followed by 20% of parents who did not know or have a guess as to what [...]

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