var digesttext = "<!-- Header --><style type=\"text/css\">P.item { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px solid #999; line-height: 1.45em }a { color: #04E; }#items { font-size: 13px; }SPAN.description { color: #222; line-height: 1.25em }SPAN.date { color: #888; font-size: 11px; }SPAN.date A { color: #247; }SPAN.grey { color: #888; font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; }</style><div id=\"items\"><!-- Items --><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3Jbg\" target=\"_blank\">Infant\'s Gaze May Be An Early, But Subtle, Marker For Autism Risk</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">09/02/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Kennedy Krieger Institute announced new study results showing an early marker for later communication and social delays in infants at a higher&#45;risk for autism may be infrequent gazing at other people when unprompted...</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HY3\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists Measure Gene Mutation Rate In Autism And Schizophrenia</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/30/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">An international study led by University of Montreal scientists suggests family history may not be a good predictor of the presence of mutations predisposing to autism or schizophrenia. The findings show how new or de novo gene mutations &#..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HVs\" target=\"_blank\">Six&#45;year Study Provides Documentation Of Theorized Differences In Brain\'s Cortex In Autism Disorders</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/27/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">There is still much that is unknown about autism spectrum disorders, but a University of Nevada, Reno psychologist has added to the body of knowledge that researchers around the world are compiling to try to demystify, prevent and treat the..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HSR\" target=\"_blank\">Alarming Increase In Autism Brings Together Hundreds Of Parents, Researchers And Clinicians From Around The World To Long Beach This October</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/26/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new estimates that one in every 110 children (1 in 70 boys) is diagnosed with autism. Autism has become more common in our children than cancer, diabetes and AIDS combin..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HMb\" target=\"_blank\">Fla.\'s Jackson Health System Struggles With Nursing Home And Hospital Losses; Advocates Push Marijuana Cultivation In Calif.</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/24/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\"> The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System\'s \"governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money&#45;losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut los..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HL4\" target=\"_blank\">Curemark To Present At BioPharm America&#x2122; 2010</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/24/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Curemark, LLC, a drug research and development company focused on the treatment of neurological diseases, will present at BioPharm America&#x2122; 2010, to be held September 15&#45;17 in Boston at the Marriott Boston Copley Place, the compa..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HKh\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers Connect APC Protein To Autism And Mental Retardation</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/24/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">A clue to the causes of autism and mental retardation lies in the synapse, the tiny intercellular junction that rapidly transfers information from one neuron to the next...</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HHW\" target=\"_blank\">Autism Research: For Measuring And Analyzing Child Behavior, NSF Awards $10M To Develop Computing Techniques</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/23/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $10 million \"Expeditions in Computing\" award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop novel computing techniques for measuring and analyzing the behavior of child..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HGt\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium To Develop Tools For Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/22/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\"> Researchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five&#45;year, $10 million initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create novel tools for evaluating social interactions and othe..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HDT\" target=\"_blank\">Autism Research Finds Empirical Link Between Multisensory Integration And Autism</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/20/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has provided concrete evidence that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) process sensory information such as sound, touch and vision differentl..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3Hvc\" target=\"_blank\">Developmental Problems, Some Exist In The Genes</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/18/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Everyone is special in their own unique way. From a genetic point of view, no two humans are genetically identical. This means that DNA for each individual contains variants that are more or less common in the overall population. Some gene ..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3Hsq\" target=\"_blank\">Language As A Window Into Sociability</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/17/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">People with Williams syndrome &#45; known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers &#45; process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders &#45; characterized by social withdrawal and isolat..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3Hrh\" target=\"_blank\">Disturbances In Certain Genes Play A Role In Autism</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/17/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Together with colleagues from an international research group, autism researcher Christopher Gillberg of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has found in a new study that autism can be partially explained by abnormalities in certain genes..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3HkC\" target=\"_blank\">Robots To Help Children With Autism</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/13/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Interbots, Inc., a high&#45;tech spin&#45;off company associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center has teamed up with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to provide innovative robot&#45;based therapy for childr..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3Hf5\" target=\"_blank\">New Brain Scan Diagnoses Autism In Adults</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/11/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">UK scientists have developed a new type of brain scan that only takes 15 minutes and can diagnose autism in adults with over 90 per cent accuracy: they hope to develop it so it can be used to screen children for autism spectrum disorders...</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3H7R\" target=\"_blank\">Lack Of Evidence To Support Use Of Antidepressants For Autism</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/09/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Antidepressants commonly prescribed to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended based on current evidence, a new study by Cochrane Researchers concludes...</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3H8F\" target=\"_blank\">Autism And Antidepressants, No Compelling Evidence That It Helps</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/08/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Based on current evidence, the commonly practiced therapy of prescribing antidepressants to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers...</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3H5B\" target=\"_blank\">Free Program Available For Parents Of Children With Autism, Australia</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/08/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Researchers at UQ\'s Parenting and Family Support Centre are offering a free program to parents of children aged two to nine with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Called \"Primary Care Stepping Stones Triple P\", it is the latest version of ..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3H6x\" target=\"_blank\">Relatives Of Individuals With Autism Tend To Display Abnormal Eye Movements</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/08/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">Abnormal eye movements and other sensorimotor and neurobehavioral impairments appear common in unaffected family members of individuals with autism, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAM..</span><br /></p><p class=\"item\"><big><span class=\"grey\">&raquo;</span> <a href=\"http://mnt.to/f/3H4K\" target=\"_blank\">\'Brain Injury\' Is Newest Disability Intensive Course Introduced To College Of Direct Support Curriculum</a></big><br/><span class=\"date\">08/06/10 from <a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?category=72\" target=\"_blank\">Autism News From Medical News Today</a></span><br /><span class=\"description\">The College of Direct Support (CDS), an internet&#45;based college for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) and managed in partnership by Elsevier/MC Strategies and the University of Minnesota\'s Research and Training Center, has introduced i..</span><br /></p><!-- Footer --></div><div class=\"fdpoweredby\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif\"><a style=\"color: #888\" href=\"http://feed.informer.com\">Powered by Feed Informer</a></div><script type=\"text/javascript\">/* <![CDATA[ */document.write(\"<img src=\'http://hits.informer.com/log.php?id=44&amp;r=\"+ Math.round(100000 * Math.random()) + \"\' />\");/* ]]> */</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://208.88.226.83/log_e.php?id=R1VXDPUQNU&amp;r=0.26562039412244\"></script>";
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