INSAR 2019
Repetitive behaviors ease with age in most autistic children
Restricted and repetitive behaviors decrease significantly in about 75 percent of autistic children from age 3 to 11.
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International Society for Autism Research 2019
May 2019
INSAR 2019
Sensory sensitivity may forecast self-injury in autistic children
Autistic infants who have extreme responses to sights, sounds or textures tend to harm themselves as toddlers.
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Severe heart conditions may increase odds of autism
Autism is more common among children who have undergone open heart surgery for a congenital heart condition than it is in the general population.
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INSAR 2019
Sleep struggles in autistic people may have genetic basis
Autistic children may be more likely than their unaffected siblings to carry mutations in genes linked to sleep.
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INSAR 2019
With its targets, top autism gene may define a form of the condition
Children with mutations either in CHD8 — a top autism gene — or in genes that CHD8 controls share similar characteristics.
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INSAR 2019
Diagnostic tests don’t miss girls with autism, study suggests
Boys and girls with autism get virtually identical scores on three commonly used diagnostic tests, suggesting that sex doesn’t affect the scores.
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INSAR 2019
Gaze patterns in toddlers may predict autism
The gaze of children as young as 16 months old may help predict whether they have autism and reveal finer-grained details, such as their verbal and social abilities.
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INSAR 2019
Gut woes common, but not unique, among children with autism
Autistic children are more likely to have gastrointestinal problems than typical children are, but no more so than children with other brain conditions.
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INSAR 2019
Autistic children’s decline in development may begin at 9 months
Some autistic children’s communication and motor skills begin to decelerate between 9 and 18 months — years before the average age of diagnosis.
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April 2019
INSAR 2019
Tensions ride high despite reshuffle at autism science meeting
The International Society for Autism Research faces a thorny problem: how to please a diverse mix of attendees who have radically different goals.