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Is There a Connection between Autism and Bipolar Disorder?

For those of you not familiar with bipolar disorder, it’s a mood disorder once known as “manic depression.” Persons with bipolar disorder alternat...

Finding autism early: 6 important questions about your toddler

In the practice where I work, as in many other practices, we ask parents to fill out questionnaires about the behavior and development of their chi...

A newborn's placenta may reveal autism risk

Doctors may be able to diagnose a child's risk of autism at birth, which would allow treatment of the burgeoning disorder to begin in the child's ...

New method detects autism with 94% accuracy

Neuroscientists have come out with an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. The researchers from C...

Webinar - Prevalence, Characteristics, and Health Care of School-Aged Children with a Parent-Reported History of Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Look at Recent National Survey Data.

In this webinar, Dr. Blumberg presents data from the recently released 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health and the 2011 Survey of Pathways...

"An Introduction to Autism"

April is Autism Awareness Month. As part of our continuing effort to promote global awareness for autism, we are making our training video "An Intr...

Webinar - Prevalence, Characteristics, and Health Care of School-Aged Children with a Parent-Reported History of Autism Spectrum

In this webinar, Dr. Stephen Blumberg, Acting Associate Director for Science for the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center o...

In autism, age at diagnosis depends on specific symptoms

The age at which a child with autism is diagnosed is related to the particular suite of behavioral symptoms he or she exhibits, new research from ...

Not Just for Boys: When Autism Spectrum Disorders Affect Girls

Is autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in girls underdiagnosed? An autism diagnosis is relatively rare in girls; Asperger's is even rarer. Boys outnumbe...

Webinar - Autism and D/HH students

More Than Meets the Eye: An Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders A new webinar with Dr. Christen Szymanski Thursday, April 18, 2013 3 to 4 ...

CDC-HRSA report: Changes in Prevalence of Parent-reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-aged U.S. Children: 2007 to 2011–2012

Read the CDC-HRSA report here.

1 in 50 School Kids Has Autism, CDC Says

A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the disorder. Health offici...

Peekaboo clue to autism in young children

[image] UK scientists studying a group of four- to six-month-old babies who were at a "family risk" of autism because of their older siblings' di...

Ultrasound: Autism Risk at Birth Revealed by Scan

A study led by Michigan State University found that newborns with low birth weight are seven times more likely to develop autism later in life if ult...

Screening and Diagnosis

Diagnosis for a child with ASD begins with concerns brought up by parents, educators, or medical staff; which often produce a referral to a develo...

Resources

Welcome to the Resources section of the VCU-ACE website! The world of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is constantly evolving and autism is an...

DSM-5 Provides New Take on Neurodevelopment Disorders

A major change to the description and organization of criteria for autism and related disorders tops the major revisions clinicians can expect to see...

Researchers Spot Attention Deficits in Babies Who Later Develop Autism

[130205102153-large.jpg] Researchers at Yale School of Medicine are able to detect deficits in social attention in infants as young as six months of ...

Autism traits found in babies

Hamilton researchers have found autism traits in babies 12 months and younger, raising the possibility of one day preventing the neurological diso...

Social Communication Disorder—is it "Autism Lite?"

"Social Communication Disorder is described (in my opinion) as a sort of “autism lite,” where the person has some features of autism but not enough t...