Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autism. Show all posts
Thursday, October 04, 2018

The number of neurons in the amygdala normally increases during development, but not in autism.

›
Avino et al. point out one possible underlying cause of the characteristic difficulty that people with autism spectrum disorder have in und...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism.

›
Fascinating observations from Gordon et al , who find that that intranasal administration of oxytocin enhances activity in the brain for soc...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Insensitivity to social reputation in autism.

›
Further characterization of how social cognition is changed by the autism disorder - evidence for distinctive brain systems that mediate th...
3 comments:
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Oxytocin may improve autism

›
I have done a large number of posts on behavioral effects of oxytocin, the 'trust hormone', notably in human studies that use an oxy...
2 comments:
Monday, November 16, 2009

Debate over the term Asperger's syndrome - continued

›
Autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin of the comic actor Sacha Baron-Cohen) weighs in on the debate that I mentioned in my 11/4/09 post ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Asperger's syndrome to become Autism spectrum disorder?

›
Claudia Wallis does an article on the proposal to drop the name "Asperger's syndrome,' folding it, along with the term "p...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

Mindblindness in Asperger's syndrome

›
Recent work by Senju et al. is summarized in Science: Placement of Asperger syndrome within the family of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) ...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Estrogen receptors in the male medial amygdala disrupt social behavior.

›
A series of classic studies have shown that in Prairie Voles two neuropeptides, oxytocin and vasopressin, are primary modulators of pair-bon...
Monday, November 17, 2008

A novel theory of mental disorders

›
Benedict Carey writes a useful article on a radical new theory for explaining the psychotic spectrum: ...that an evolutionary tug of war be...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Enhanced logical consistency in autism.

›
Dolan's group has an interesting open access article in J. Neuroscience showing: behavioral evidence that autism spectrum disorder (ASD...
2 comments:
Monday, October 13, 2008

Autistic people have the visual acuity of hawks.

›
Ashwin et al. have come up with a fascinating observation during their testing of 15 men with autism-spectrum disorders using the Freiburg ...
3 comments:
Friday, February 15, 2008

High-Functioning Autism: a neural phenotype in the cingulate cortex

›
A review by Chris and Uta Frith discusses and important paper in Neuron from Montague's group in Houston, who: ...have measured brain ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Impairment of action chains in autism.

›
When we observe the start of an action sequence that can end in two possible ways (in the figure shown a piece of food is placed in the mout...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Plasticity and learning in the human mirror neuron system

›
I pass on a review by Welberg of an interesting study by Catmur et al. [Catmur, C., Walsh, V. & Heyes, C. Sensorimotor learning config...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Self-Referential Cognition in Autism

›
Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have profound impairments in the interpersonal social domain, but it is unclear if individ...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Savant Autism - part 1

›
I thought this two part sequence on autism was worth passing on....

Savant Autism - part 2

›
Thursday, January 04, 2007

An Autistic Savant - The Living Camera

›
Steven is an autistic savant living in London who did not speak until he was five and now has great difficulty with language as an adult. W...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

A "mind reading" prosthesis for autistic people?

›
Another clip from the NYTimes Magazine "Ideas" issue: "The Emotional-Social Intelligence Prosthesis, developed by Rana el Kal...
1 comment:
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

A striking difference in brain function in autism: Failure to deactivate.

›
Kennedy et al report interesting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data on normal compared with autistic brains. From their art...
1 comment: