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Rare form of autism linked to lack of key nutrient
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A mutation that prevents some amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, from entering the brain may lead to autism.
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November 2016
News
Diverse paths to autism may converge on shared cellular features
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Neural stem cells derived from boys with autism of unknown cause may share genetic, chemical and physical features absent in cells from their typical brothers.
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September 2016
News
Diabetes drug slows weight gain in some children with autism
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Metformin can reverse weight gain in children with autism who take antipsychotic medications.
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October 2015
Features / Deep Dive
Wide awake: Why children with autism struggle with sleep
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Half of children who have autism have trouble falling or staying asleep, which may make their symptoms worse. Scientists are just beginning to explore what goes wrong in the midnight hour.
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September 2015
News / Toolbox
Tool tracks brainwaves, blood flow in moving rats
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A head-mounted device tracks both blood flow and electrical activity in the brains of moving rats.
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March 2015
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2015
News / Spotted
Spotted: Missing cerebellum; app approach
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Researchers home in on the cerebellum’s role, and an app helps children with autism make eye contact.
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January 2015
Opinion
Small study bolsters difficult search for autism blood test
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A set of small molecules in the blood can distinguish people with autism from controls with 81 percent accuracy, claims a biotech firm, but the test faces a long and difficult road to clinical use.
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August 2014
Opinion / Cross Talk
Can a drug for a parasitic disease really treat autism?
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Reports of a century-old drug that reverses autism-like symptoms in mice raise key questions about the complexity of translating promising research into real treatments.
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June 2014
News
Drug for sleeping sickness eases autism symptoms in mice
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A single dose of a drug used to treat African sleeping sickness temporarily improves symptoms of autism in a mouse model, according to a study published last week in Translational Psychiatry.
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April 2014
News
Cognition and behavior: Autism-linked antibodies affect mice
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Injecting antibodies taken from mothers of children with autism directly into the brains of fetal mice results in autism-like behaviors in the mice in adulthood, according to a study published 5 March in Behavioural Brain Research.
