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13 November 2012 A Newsletter from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative

NEWS

Behavioral treatment for autism may normalize brain activity

In hurricane's wake, questions about animal facilities

VIEWPOINT

Insights for autism from schizophrenia

IN BRIEF

Clinical research: Children with autism have abnormal airways

Molecular mechanisms: Regulatory RNA altered in autism

Cognition and behavior: Autism families see things differently

TOOLBOX

Virtual brain suggests neural connections form randomly

BLOG

Growing our community

Publishing secrets

NEWS

Behavioral treatment for autism may normalize brain activity

Early intensive therapy may normalize the brain's response to faces in young

children with autism, according to a study published in the November issue of

theJour nal of th e Am erican Aca dem y of Child an d Ad olescen t Psychiat ry .

The results are part of a randomized, controlled trial of a treatment called the

Early Start Denver Model.

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In hurricane's wake, questions about animal facilities

Life for most New Yorkers is getting back to normal after the unprecedented

destruction caused last week by Hurricane Sandy, but researchers at New

York University face a painful and painstaking recovery.

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VIEWPOINT

Insights for autism from schizophrenia

Lessons learned from postmortem studies of schizophrenia are applicable to

research on autism, a disorder for which brain tissue has not been as well

studied, say Allison Curley and David Lewis.

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IN BRIEF

Clinical research: Children with autism have abnormal airways

Children with autism have abnormal lung anatomy, according to a study

published 28 August in theJourn al of Au tism an d Dev elop m en ta l Disord ers .

The results suggest a potential biomarker of autism, researchers say.

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Molecular mechanisms: Regulatory RNA altered in autism

Postmortem brains from individuals with autism have abnormal levels of long

non-coding RNAs, which regulate the expression of genes, according to a

study published 5 September in theJour nal of Molecu lar Neuroscience.

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Cognition and behavior: Autism families see things differently

Family members of individuals with autism process faces and scenes

differently than do controls, according to two new studies, one of them

published in October. This suggests that visual processing may be an autism

endophenotype a measurable symptom that represents part of the genetic

risk of a disorder.

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TOOLBOX

Virtual brain suggests neural connections form randomly

Researchers are assembling a virtual reconstruction of the brain by piecing

together simulations of thousands of neurons, they reported 16 October in the

Proceedings of the N ational Academy of Sciences. They used this model to

show that most junctions between neurons form randomly and not as the

result of chemical signals.

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BLOG

Growing our community

SFARI.org is developing an online community for autism researchers to shareideas and opinions. We want your input.

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Publishing secrets

Papers that are turned down by one journal and end up being published by

another are cited significantly more often than papers accepted by the first-

choice journal, according to an analysis published 12 October in Science.

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