18 June 2010
Beginning June 21st the Alaska Autism Resource Center will be operating on summer hours and the Anchorage office will be open via appointment. A specialist will be monitoring and responding to email and voice messages on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1-4:30. Please email Krista James at kjames@sesa.org to schedule an appointment. Have a wonderful summer!
17 June 2010
The Anchorage SESA office will not be open for visitors for this videoconference. You can still connect via videoconference and teleconference.
10 June 2010
The world’s largest genetic scan of people with autism in their families has found that many patients have their own unique pattern of genetic mutations, not necessarily inherited.
27 May 2010
By SHIRLEY S. WANG By taking scans of sleeping children, researchers are discovering what occurs in the brains of babies and young children with autism.Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to peer at images of the children’s brains, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found that autistic children as [...]
17 May 2010
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There is something obviously wrong in the brains of people with autism, and one of the chief symptoms of that is the difficulty they have in understanding other people’s emotions and intentions.But exactly what causes that social awkwardness is still being debated among neuroscientists — and the debate [...]
17 May 2010
By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) — Infections during infancy or childhood do not seem to raise the risk of autism, new research finds.
06 May 2010
The MIND Institute at UC Davis is enrolling participants in clinical trials for an autism treatment developed by Curemark LLC, a drug research and development company in Rye, N.Y.
04 May 2010
A self-advocate and Autism Speaks’ chief science officer are among the latest appointees to a federal committee tasked with guiding autism research priorities.
04 May 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many kids are picky eaters but new research suggests the trait is even more common in autistic children who tend to refuse more foods and are more likely to restrict their diets to a smaller variety of foods than other children.
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