This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=303&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:33:33 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital researchers are looking for 110 6-month-old infants in the Puget Sound area to participate in a new study investigating brain development in autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:59:50 GMT About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far. Now a large international team, including six present and former University of Washington researchers, has identified several genetic links to autism, chief among them a variant of semaphorin 5A, a gene whose protein product controls nerve connections in the brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:01:08 GMT Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification and early intervention for children with autism, has been named the new director of the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:27:21 GMT Mothers of children with autism had higher levels of parenting-related stress and psychological distress than moms of children with developmental delay. Children's problem behavior was associated with increases in both parenting-related stress and distress in both groups, but this relationship was stronger in mothers of children with autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50759 Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50759 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:09:03 GMT A national research team including six present and former UW researchers has connected more of the intricate pieces of the autism puzzle, with two studies that identify genes with important contributions to the disorder. Both studies detected genes implicated in the development of brain circuitry in early childhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:02:00 GMT UW researchers have discovered an increased pattern of brain activity in the amygdalas of adults with autism that may be linked to the social deficits that typically are associated with the disorder. Previous research at the UW and elsewhere has shown that abnormal growth patterns in the amygdala are commonly found among young children diagnosed with autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:54:56 GMT Like a picture, an image can be worth a thousand words, and University of Washington autism researchers would like to capture images of the growing brains of more than a hundred infants in Washington and six other western states as part of a study examining changes in children's brains and behavior that may signal the onset of autistic symptoms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:41:39 GMT New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are "wired" differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic of autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42459 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42459 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:18 GMT Recent research has shown that the majority of autism cases occur in families with just one child who has disorder, and that's why the University of Washington's Autism Center is seeking 200 Washington and Oregon families to participate in a new North American study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42167 Health and Medicine Social Science http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42167 Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT Children with autism have normal-size heads at birth but develop accelerated head growth between six and nine months of age, a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental disorder, according to new research from the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39399 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39399 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:21:36 GMT Autism researchers at the University of Washington will take the initial step in attempting to prevent the developmental disorder when they launch an $11.3 million study this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38711 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38711 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:47:05 GMT Young children with autism have a difficult time recognizing ordinary words such as ball, dog and cat and more of their brains are occupied with this kind of task compared to typically developing youngsters, according to UW research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32511 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32511 Fri, 04 May 2007 15:32:00 GMT Three researchers who are among those searching for the causes of autism and seeking treatments for the developmental disorder will discuss new findings at a press conference at the opening of the sixth International Meeting for Autism Research in Seattle http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32588 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32588 Tue, 01 May 2007 17:22:45 GMT More than 900 scientists, parents and activists from around the world who are focused on understanding the causes of autism and finding treatments for the developmental disorder will gather in Seattle May 3-5 to share the latest research findings at the sixth International Meeting for Autism Research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32420 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32420 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:26:26 GMT An international team of researchers from 19 countries has identified one gene and a previously unidentified region of another chromosome as the location of another gene that may contribute to a child's chances of having autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30694 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30694 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:35:45 GMT UW researchers who are trying to unlock the secrets of what causes some children to have delayed development are looking for 25 children who are delayed in some aspect of their development and 25 typically developing children 18 to 30 months of age from the Puget Sound area to participate in a study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28134 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28134 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:00:00 GMT UW researchers have found patterns of abnormal connectivity between brain regions in people with autism. This indicates the neurons in the brains of people with the development disorder may not communicate with each other as well as they do in other people. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27363 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27363 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT