1. MIT Acquires Electa MIG; Launches New Research
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... to monitor the timing of brain activity with millisecond precision. MIT researchers will use MEG to study normal cognition in children and adults, as well as the neural basis of autism, depression, schizophrenia ...

2. fMRI Reveals How Brain Categorize Objects
(Communities/MRI)

... the same scans. Second, he mentioned the applications relating to determining the fundamental causes of many mental disorders, stating that people with autism may show less activity in the areas dealing ...

3. Tele-Health Suite: Image Capture For Autism
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

Medical Care Technologies Inc. announced the initial development of image capture for autism using Tele-Health Suite technology, which will allow families and professionals to record behaviours.  ...

4. CollaborateMD Promotes Philanthropic Contributions Company-Wide
(Company News/CollaborateMD)

... Now for Autism Speaks, Z88.3 FM, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Beta Center. In addition to the individual donation, CollaborateMD offered 100% matching for all employee contributions. The total ...

5. RSNA 2009; 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... research. Following are just a few headlines generated by reporters covering last year's meeting: Radiologists Uncover New Teen Affliction Autism's Roots May Lie in Inability to Process Sounds ...

6. Center for MRI Scanner to Open in Atlanta
(Communities/MRI)

... into the mysteries of the brain and mind The Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, a joint venture of Georgia State and Georgia Tech, opened this month for researchers exploring topics from autism and ...

7. Study Gives More Proof that Intelligence is Largely Inherited
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... age and then slowly beginning to decline, Thompson believes identifying the genes that promote high-integrity myelin is critical to forestalling brain diseases like multiple sclerosis and autism, which ...

8. Leading European Universities Choose Elekta to Deliver Advanced 3D Brain Mapping Tool for Research
(Company News/Elekta Group)

... at the Moscow Municipal University of Psychology and Education, plan to use Elekta Neuromag for clinically oriented research applications, such as autism in children. The University also plans to employ ...

9. Using brain scans, researchers find evidence for a two-stage model of human perceptual learning
(Imported/Imported)

... perceptual deficits due to autism. In the March 15 issue of Neuron, the research team provides the first human evidence for a two-stage model of how a person learns to place objects into categories--discerning, ...

10. Brain research poised to dramatically advance global society
(Imported/Imported)

... public health, particularly in managing diseases that affect the mind, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, autism and schizophrenia," said Jim Olds, director of Mason's Krasnow Institute ...

11. Autistic brains can be trained to recognize visual and vocal cues
(Imported/Imported)

... listen to their tone of voice, then integrate that information with the context at hand to discern meaning, be it humor, anger, irony or straightforwardness. Individuals with autism typically don't do ...

12. Study discovers link between increased white matter and poor motor skills in children with autism
(Imported/Imported)

A study published in the August issue of the journal Brain demonstrates, for the first time, an association between increased white matter volume and functional impairment in children with autism. Findings ...

13. Young researcher looks for scientific basis of human social behaviour
(Imported/Imported)

... are social animals even more than was thought, including those suffering from autism and conditions that make it hard to relate to others. Cooperative behaviour is deeply ingrained in nearly all people, ...

14. Brain matures a few years late in ADHD, but follows normal pattern
(Imported/Imported)

... the researchers suggested. They also noted that the delayed pattern of maturation observed in ADHD is the opposite of that seen in other developmental brain disorders like autism, in which the volume ...

15. Carnegie Mellon neuroscientist proposes new theory of brain flexibility
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... the thought process and how this can go awry. For example, Just and his colleagues have proposed an influential theory of autism, called the underconnectivity theory, that attributes the disorder to poor ...

16. Researchers first to image biomarker of neurogenesis
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... Professor of Neurology, and Director, Biological Research at the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, who points out that their method is the first non-invasive approach to identify NPCs ...

17. New research demonstrates potential diagnosis, treatment benefits
(Imported/Imported)

... millions of Americans, including breast cancer, diabetes, obesity and even autism. Source: The LAM Foundation  ...

18. Contemplative brain network less complex in children
(Imported/Imported)

... as autism on brain function. "Having this information will not only help us understand what's going wrong in these patients, it will also allow us to better assess whether and how future interventions ...

19. MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development
(Imported/Imported)

... such as autism. The researchers describe their model and analysis in the April issue of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Peng Yu, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences ...

20. $7.5m NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
(Imported/Imported)

The Yale Child Study Center has been awarded the Autism Center of Excellence status by the National Institutes of Health. The award comes with $7.5 million of direct funding over five years to the Autism ...