Autism - Science topic

Unilateral ICV administration of 1M Propanoic acid is generally done in rats to induce autism like symptoms.

This autistic child may prevent self-stimulation through these repetitive movements

I'm building a catalog of characters representing autism in popular media for research I'm doing.

I can't physically watch all the TV and movies ever made or read all the books ever written to make this as complete as possible, so I've created a survey to gather more information.

You can participate here: https://forms.gle/6Y7iQC6UZogUmE6RA

Thanks in advance for your help adding to this database!

Dear all,

I am currently recruiting participants to take part in my final year dissertation research project. I am investigating the properties of an accessible version of an autism screening tool (the Autism Quotient) when used with children.

The study has received ethical approval from Northumbria University (Ref:44763) and all data will be kept secure and anonymous.

We are looking for participants that:

The study will involve:

If you have any further questions regarding the study, please contact sally.e.lamb@northumbria.ac.uk

To find out more information about the study and to take part, please go to: https://nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8zYLleeCRtFvKWG

Dear all,

I am currently recruiting participants to take part in my final year dissertation research project. I am investigating the properties of an accessible version of an autism screening tool (the Autism Quotient) when used with children.

The study has received ethical approval from Northumbria University (Ref:44763) and all data will be kept secure and anonymous.

We are looking for participants that:

The study will involve:

If you have any further questions regarding the study, please contact sally.e.lamb@northumbria.ac.uk

To find out more information about the study and to take part, please go to: https://nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8zYLleeCRtFvKWG

I'm a PsyD student doing my dissertation on differences in identity development between adolescent females diagnosed with autism before, during, and after adolescence. For my literature review, I need research on autism in females as well as how autism/disability influences identity development. I'm particularly interested in the neurodiversity paradigm and any empirical research supporting this approach. Any articles or books would be appreciated!

In my current thinking/writing I have been exploring ideas behind quantum social theory, for example the potential of an entropic society. Here, such a society exhibits a default (temporal) tendency toward disorder. Entropy increases unless society works to reduce it. Why? Because, from a quantum super-positional perspective on a society of individuals, there is an infinite potential for interference through quantum interdependency: there is an indeterminate potentiality to disorder, with only a limited number of determinable, observable events that may signify order.

Statistically, unless we invest in reducing the range of interdependencies and thus work to reduce the indeterminacy of state changes and/or interferences, by implementing (social) negentropic constraints, we will experience emergent disorder. Such constraints, including our social institutions, laws, ethics and morals, are designed to increase the probability that a given/anticipated/expected/desired state change within society may be observable. This is society’s desire for normativity.

Yet, as I think on these lines, I begin to see the potential of the autistic mind and its consciousness as a radical free agent unbound to the idea of negentropic normativity. This, to my mind is a positive prospect: autism’s value to society. Society needs its free radicals to prevent excessive negentropy. By attention to the radical free agents of society, we can be reminded that social normativity cannot rule out indeterminacy entirely: society must respect its entropic potential. And, while all about us seek to normalise our activities, we can look to autism to remind us of our full, unrealised potential.

Thoughts? All opinions, normative and non-normative are welcome.

What type of design was used and how was statistical computation and graphing achieved? Was a software package used?

Hi Please can someone explain what interventions are best to implement to improve communication with children aged 6-12years old? And what evidence would you use to justify using them?

There are psychosocial factor that come up during pubery for all Adolescent, especially with autism.

What's difference between their behavior in this area. And how we can help them to over come on it?

I would love to collaborate! Let's share the energy!

My primary interest is the broad scope of the working lives of people with ADHD or other neurodiverse conditions. I would like to look at positive approaches to employment situations and relationships.

Many people with ADHD and low-moderate impact Autism are very successful in the workplace. Additionally, late diagnosis of these conditions is growing so people who have been working for decades are getting diagnosed. Looking at their success can define effective inclusive processes for managers going forward.

Other topic areas I would be happy to work with include:

My direct email is jhosmer@csumb.edu

I would like to know how helpful information technology could be for the development of children with ASD.

Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, PDD, and Childhood disintegrative disorder were removed from the category of autism spectrum disorder in DSM5. Given this, what is your opinion about the inclusion of studies related to this older category of autism (on Asperger, Rett, PDD population) in the systematic review studies of autism?

We have published today a paper at Springer Nature journal of Scientific Reports entitled "Optimal time lags from causal prediction model help stratify and forecast nervous system pathology" by Theodoros Bermperidis and co-authors from my lab at Rutgers, colleagues at Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University. The paper describes how to standardize signals from wearables and make causal predictions forecasting disorders of genetic origins and unknown etiology. These included Fragile X and SHANK3 deletion syndromes, both linked to Autism, and Parkinson's disease and Vestibular Dizziness Handicap. I wonder if we could use gait more often in the clinical settings now that we have off-the-shelf wearables at our disposal. Research shows that it would improve classification and help stratify heterogeneous disorders like Autism and Parkinson's disease. Read more here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00156-2

Social cognition deficits have been classically studied in psychotic conditions (Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorders) or in Neurodevelopmental disorders (Autism spectrum disorders). But is there a sound rationale in studying this area in individuals with sub-threshold/sub-clinical depression (who usually don't seek any mental health service, and even if they do, they're most likely to visit a psychologist's clinic than a psychiatric set-up)? I'd like to know the research community's views on this.

As alluded to in Kissine's (2021) Language paper and others, autistic individuals are egocentric language learners and users, because of “the difficulties in mind-reading that are inherent in the autism diagnosis” (cf. Andrés et al. 2017; Geurts et al. 2020). To compensate, autistic people seem to resort to self-sufficient mechanisms to acquire their grammatical competence and IPC (i.e., abstractly executing pure thought and processing communicative tasks. Cf. Mao 2020; 2021). In this case, what is a proper perspective to view the divergences between constructionists and nativists in terms of language acquisition and its use?

ADHD about Autistique children

We interrogated a random draw of 18,965 genes from 25 diseases including neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders that today often receive the Autism label. We also included non-neurological diseases in the set, and asked if using the genes' expression on 54 tissues defined by the GETex project, we could stratify Autism as we know it today, made up of all these neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders. We found a self-emerging stratification that informs us of new ways to recommend treatments in Autism by leveraging existing therapies that are not defined by "inappropriate behaviors" but rather address physiological issues.

The question is whether we are going to continue following this archaic Autism diagnosis-to-treatment pipeline and circularly informing science by criteria that feeds the Autism Industrial Complex and makes each one of these families into a commodity, or move away from all of it and rely on medical and physiological issues. The preprint is in the bioRxvi and I welcome comments on the results of this interrogation and the proposal for Precision Autism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.454081v1.full

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), also known as autism, is a common, highly heritable and heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder that has underlying cognitive features and commonly co-occurs with other conditions. The behaviours, strengths and challenges

of people with autism have attracted the attention of scientists and clinicians for at least 500 years...

- What is the difference between therapies and interventions as a treatment option to improve the social communication skills of children with autism.

- Has there been a particular treatment option that has proved to be highly effective in the development of the social communication skills of children with autism.

- What are some aspects of certain therapies and interventions that contributed to its effectiveness as a treatment option for the improvement of social communication skills in children with autism.

- What factors are needed to be considered before deciding upon the best treatment option to develop the social communication skill of a child with autism.

If someone been through stem cell therapy for Autism, kindly share experience, benefits or disadvantages

Any scale or test to measure toe walking in autism

Hello,

I'm carrying out a research in visual perception in children with autism and I need to acquire eeg signal during an oddball paradigm in combination with an eye tracker. I'm using a biosemi 64 electrodes cap and the eye tribe eye tracker. At the moment I don't know how to synchronise the data with a reliable accuracy, since I work with ERPs and perfect timing is fundamental. Thanks!

Living in poor regions in addition to economic difficulties, causes certain mental disorders not only related to poverty but the residents of these regions cause psychological damage in people with a tendency to depression or mild autism.

Any standardized tool for identification of ASD

researching in the area of emotion recognition

Very clinically relevant to reduce stress and related obesity

Seeking information on attention problems in the cases of high functioning autism

I want to run a variant caller on ASD sequences but I can't find any database that allows open access to it. Have we got something like SRA to download such data?

I am looking for research in the field of use of Machine Learning and AI in Autism Detection. Is there any proper dataset available ?

I am looking for peer reviewed articles on self injurious behavior in children with autism for research project required in one of my class in Master's program.

An interactive strategy for teaching children with autism to focus on specific nonverbal social cues to promote their social skills

Does anyone have experience with collecting ECG data on children with autism? How was your experience? I'm interested in the tolerance levels for kids to have wires attached to their chests. What was the drop rate?

Thank you kindly.

Autismo y Ansiedad

I would like to know about different scales to measure the attention span of the autism kid and by giving intervention and check out the improvement.

I need to calculate R-IRD for my data. I am struggling to understand {a} elimination of minimum overlap points and then {b} how to balance the quadrants to calculate R-IRD. 

I have referred the article by Parker, Vannest 2009,  as well as slides from PPT]Overlap Methods derived from Visual Analysis in Single Case ...

Is there a video tutorial that can explain the steps involved in calculation of R-IRD?

I have run a study on auditory perception with a sample of children with ASD. Given the high rates of comorbid diagnoses in individuals with ASD, I have some participants with multiple diagnoses (e.g., ADHD, anxiety, speech-language impairment). Is there a way I can control for these comorbid diagnoses so I do not have to exclude these participants? Is there a way to use secondary diagnosis as a covariate? Could I run the analysis with and without the participants who have additional diagnoses? Thank you in advance for any feedback.

Thank you so much for yours answers!

Have a nice day,

Valérie

Information on impact of persons with Intellectual disability during COVD19

I have received a hear-say information, that people with autistic traits are significantly represented among policemen. Supposedly, Tony Attwood detected 15% of them in Australian police force, which is the greatest prevalence, next to IT occupation. Can you help me find that citation ? Also, I am generally interested in articles about what work positions autistic people usually take, are successful at, or at least can keep them for some time. Articles using some quantitative measures / statistics are prefered. I am volunteering to write an article about autistic people in non-stereotypical job position.

Someone's daughter is having Autism and they are interested in Stem Cell treatment , we are collecting answers for them to satisfy about this treatment.

I am applying for a PhD research program which aims to investigate if the current autism diagnostic tools consider the social factors and influences in the BAME community. To enable me to do a well informed and in-depth analysis, I would like to be able to use and make an assessment using these two tools.

The proposal topic is :

I am proposing a cross cultural project for people on the Autistic Spectrum that looks at :

-how the experience of Autism may be different depending on religious or political community affiliation and associated values

-provides opportunity for people on the Autistic Spectrum to explore community identity and participate in cross-cultural experiences

Are there any studies that may support an assumption that limited social network, social anxiety and other factors such as lack of tailored initiatives, may mean that a person on the Autistic Spectrum may have less opportunity to challenge received opinion associated with the religious/ political affiliations of their immediate community?

Hi there,

I am looking for self report moral vignette questionnaires for adults. I am looking at differences in moral behaviour outcomes between narcissists and individuals with autism. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Laura

like controversies of autism due to some vaccines?

This is the question, can you help me find good resources (only journal articles or researches from Google scholar or Science Direct) but most importantly how should I structure this essay and how to be critical and evaluate Baron Cohen’s theory of mind explanation for autism

I am a physician and visiting research scientist at yale and together with my coauthors have published several studies in the field of psychology through Network Modeling and related analyses using r packages like bootnet, qgraph, NetworkComparisonTest, etc. I thought it might be a good idea to discuss different subjects related to this field, in a group. I am also interested in collaboration with other teams working in the field. Let's share our ideas, questions and suggestions in this group.

Up to my understand and research work, I believe that estrogen might be protective against glutamate excitotoxicity. So please I need your opinion in this regard

Thanks

Afaf El-Ansary

How do 3-7 year olds understand common illustrations in primary school literature? How often do theory of mind deficits lead to a false understanding of illustrations? Should early readers, where illustration comprehension is of utmost importance take theory of mind barriers into consideration? Are autistic children who are in school due to inclusion at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding illustrations?

Teachers’ belief has been widely researched. There is however little research that describes teachers beliefs teaching children with autism to read? How May existing research about teacher beliefs be integrated in the context of teaching children with autism to read?

I'm interested in your research & I would be gratefull if you could provide the full-text. I am working with clinical thermography since 2008 and we have an autism treatment in Brazil. There are many challenges in registering themal images with autism pacients. What camera are you using for your research?

We could make a good use of this solution if monitor those data with different emotional crisis comparing the before and after between each session.

Best regards

I am doing market research for Autism and IT-market in India. Now I am interested to combine the data of Autism and IT-Market. Which strategic or marketing model would you like to recommend?

Any journal or conference papers relating to the effectiveness of software used in classrooms for speech, language and communication and also for educational use. 

I am a Ph.D. graduate student at Alliant International University. I am in the process of gathering data for my research study. I am attempting to understand the obstacles parents face when seeking services for their children diagnosed with autism. I am attempting to figure out which barriers parents currently face by Mexican-American and Caucasian families. The most prominent barriers are geographic location, immigration status, which has been linked to language, limited knowledge/awareness of ASD, anti-immigration laws and cultural beliefs. Ideally, I would like to publish my results to encourage agencies to modify the services offered to families, specifically, ethnic minorities.

I am reaching out to you to help advertise my study to encourage parents to participate. The Alliant International University Institutional Review Board has approved my study. I am looking for Mexican American and Caucasian parents who have a child diagnosed within the Autism Spectrum between the ages of 3 and 17, who live in California. Parents, who are would like to participate, they will complete a 15-minute questionnaire online and enter for a chance to win one of three prizes, $50 Fandango card, $50 Amazon card or $50 Visa card. By participating in my research study, they will help us understand parent’s experience-seeking resources for their children. I have flyers and a brief explanation, in Spanish and English, of the study. I ask you to distribute them and courage parents to participate in my study. Here is the link ofr the English questionnaire https://alliant.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0rHNKaZGhNhCXAx. Spanish questionnaire , https://alliant.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etD6QQMW1CvGPVr.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at 619-356-1438.

Thank you,

Elizabeth Sanchez Arvizu

Autismo y ansiedad

This is a research question for my English class that I will be doing. The question is based on how we can use a Therapeutic plan to treat mental disorders like Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, ADD/ADHD, Autism, Obsessive, and PTSD disorders by using Nutrition, Exercise, Group and Individual therapy in a non medicated form verses a medicated form of therapy.

Hello,

I'm currently doing a study on inclusive practice, and I am planning on doing an intervention with a young child in my class (age 3), who shows signs of autism but is undiagnosed as of yet. I am going to concentrate on improving his focus and attention span through an intervention over the next 6 weeks.

Does anyone have any reading or suggestions?

Thank you

Which kind of food the Aoutism patient shold avoid, and whis is advaced to take?

If you have information about animal models of autism and use of probiotics to treat them, please share your valuable information with us.

I am looking to do a content analysis on how left and right wing UK newspapers presented the link between MMR and autism. However, the number of articles I get back when searching the terms 'autism' and 'MMR' on Nexus for each newspaper is huge. The number also differs for each newspaper.

How can I decrease these articles into a manageable size? Stratified sampling?

It's difficult to get some participants.

In field of autism or neuroscince

Anyone, please guide me about creating an effective VR environment for autistic kids? Commercially available applications can be used to record continuous EEG signal, but I want to link an event ( Target/Distractor) to train autistic kids. Your feedback will be highly appreciated. Thanking you in anticipation.

One should never make self-propaganda – unless as a rational means to save all. I do therefore humbly apologize for my presenting the following list of highlights to you:

Hello research community.

I have been trying to find a research that points out the brain and neural differences between high functional and low functional autism to use for my university dssay which is about neurodiversity. I didn't come with any results and i was wondering why? It could be the case that i dont put on the right keywords so i would appreciate if someone could help. If there are no studies like this i am interested to know why.

Also, do you agree with the Asperger's syndrome to be combined in the autism spectrum? Since i started reading for neurodiversity it surprised me that the DSM-5 despite the politics of the movement went onwith emerging these two as the same disorder.

Thank you

In the Autistic spectrum quotient test (AQ) described in , some questions are worded to expect a positive answer from individual with autistic traits and some are not. The first question is "I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own", which is defenitely possible to be true for an autistic individual, but doesn't sound like an autistic trait. Still, the test does count it as one (“Definitely agree” or “slightly agree” responses scored 1 point, on the following items: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 33, 35, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46), which is confirmed by .

Is there any reason for why this is?

I have a Bioethics class that I don't participate a lot due to my limited knowledge, Can someone help me creating a discussion question related to autism please?

I would like to study the quality of life of individuals with ASD who present low cognitive functioning and are non-verbal. I have found that many of the scales are applicable to only higher functioning individuals with ASD. If anyone knows if there is a quality of life scale that is geared more towards the lower functioning individuals, that would be great!

The US military has extensive experience in operating bases around the world, including in Europe. As military personnel have been exposed to environmental toxins, a body of knowledge on various diseases has been accumulated. https://www.hillandponton.com/ultrafine-particle-exposure-and-your-va-disability-claim/ and other diseases found at Ultra-fine particles are found in jet fuels and in auto exhaust as well as in volcanic particulate as found in Catania, Sicily. All of these cause NCD harm to the body. The allowable levels of glyphosate in food or the use of GMO laden soybeans for animal feed also allow for toxins to enter the food chain. Looking at epidemiology studies from other countries will give insight for example on the rate of brain pathologies in children (autism rates) with a 0.98 correlation to tons of glyhphosate applied in the US. Glyphosate residue on US grains is found at 2000 parts per billion in US ready-to-eat cereals and rolled oats. Glyphosate damages gut bacteria, kidney, liver, and cardiovascular system and compromises the immune system allowing for NCDs.

Dear all,

We are in contact with a family whose son suffers from a Syngap1 mutation: Missense Mutation (c.968T>G bzw. p.Leu323Arg).

They are looking very much and intense to initiate research, but also to understand which kind of research could help to understand the disease better and go into the therapeutic strategy development direction.

It is presumbly a real rare disease, but which might be significant relevance for autism and other diseases.

It would be great, if we could start the discussion how to tackle this rare disease, also already with very detailed research approaches.

Thanks a lot for your contributions,

Winfried

I am currently carrying out research into Adult Baby Syndrome for my Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy, looking at counsellors and psychotherapists that may have worked with clients with autism that have pursued or wished to pursue Adult Baby Syndrome.

There are many different descriptions of IQ and what they entail. To be honest, I have always considered the idea that intellect cannot be defined simply because there are so many skills and abilities as well as areas of intellect that can be defined as relative to IQ. Although recently I have come across the thought that IQ should be designated as the ability for an individual to be able to learn new subject matter or understand subject matter cognitively. This would make sense-- considering that mental retardation inhibits the individual from understanding simple and new subject matter. Autism also is a learning disability, however it is wise to notice that individuals on the autism spectrum tend to have a higher propensity toward individual areas of intellect that most cannot do. (For example, being able to read without be able to speak, I have seen this before in a case.) In summation, it would make sense not to base IQ off of what is currently known, but what an individual has the ability to learn. What are your thoughts?

What I am looking for are studies related to parents' ACES leading to autism in their children via changes in DNA; i.e. DNA methylation.

We have the link from ACES to DNA methylation 

and

We have the link from DNA methylation in the parent to autism in their child https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856164/

However, I have not seen any study going from parent's ACES to children's autism.  It might be there.  I just have not seen it. Thanks.

Looking for a dissertation topic but I am finding it hard to narrow it down. I am interested in autism and special education practically inclusive education. I would quite like to focus on mainstream and special education and whether it is suited to all. But I am also interested in how autism presents differently in girls than boys.

Any suggestions on where to start looking or more specific topic areas would be greatly appreciated.

In autism science, subjective criteria largely informs basic scientific research and steers the scientific narrative at all levels.

We have found profound statistical flaws in the data generated by the ADOS instrument, leading criteria today for basic autism science. The assumptions made for its validity / reliability are not met by the data this instrument generates; consequently casting doubt on our overall knowledge of what constitute core symptoms of autism and how to steer our scientific quest.

Should we open a conversation about the idea of complementing such types of subjective criteria with objective criteria, to drive autism science? There seems to be a lack of proper collaborative platform to that end, whereby people with diverse skills sets supervise each other's work. We have uploaded ours to the bioxrvi to get people's opinion on our already peer-reviewed work and further help disseminate this concept of a truly OPEN interdisciplinary approach to science.

Are observation logs completed by parent/support worker/care giver/partner useful information for clinical trials involving participants with autism? say for example testing a drug treatment or complementary therapy. Would this be useful additional information to a questionnaire? Log to monitor events of repetitive behavior, motor stereotypies, episodes of severe anxiety, aggression, "meltdowns" etc over a time period starting some time before the trial and some time after the trial has ended. I understand that participant with autism may not like the idea of a parent/SW/caregiver/parent writing information about them. Many trials involving autistic people and their families use follow up questionnaires and ask for feedback, generally with families reporting that X is doing well.

In the Autism and emotion literature, there is a strong consensus that people with Autism struggle with detecting emotions from other's facial expressions. To my knowledge, there are no studies that have attempted to control for this when assessing other forms of emotion processing in Autism (such as, via affective empathy). However, in a study that I am working on, I am trying to do just that: control for differences in participants' ability to detect emotions from other's facial expressions. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could do that? (Perhaps through some kind of control task).

Which research topic will be more appropriate when conducting a phenomenological study among caregivers of children with Autism? I have two options here;

A. Experiences of caregivers of children with Autism.

B. Caregivers' experience in caring for children with Autism.

Which of these two topics is more appropriate? Should the phenomenon of interest be mentioned as in option B (caring for children with Autism) or it shouldn't be mentioned because it is self-implied as in option A?