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  • Research seeks autism answers
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  • Researchers have long suspected that autism's causes are rooted in one's genes, combined with some kind of a hit from the environment....Additional Daily News   Special: Unlimited EdJobs.org postings $500.00   EdJobs.org A jobsite for jobseekers. Chief Development Officer and Executive Director of CSN Foundation READING SPECIALIST - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Director, Jewish S... more...
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  • Fear centre 'shrinks' in autism
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  • A part of the brain associated with emotional learning and fear shrinks in people with autism, research suggests. Teenagers and young men with autism in the study who had the most severe social impairment were found to have smaller than normal amygdalae. The researchers from the University of Wisconsin suggested the amygdalae may shrink due to chronic stress caused by social fear in childhood. more...
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  • Autism gene breakthrough hailed
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  •  Scientists have found new autism genes by scanning the largest collection of families with multiple cases of autism ever assembledThe monumental task of studying the 1,200 families took more than 120 scientists from more than 50 institutions across 19 countries. The work, described in Nature Genetics, implicates a region of chromosome 11 and a specific gene called neurexin 1. more...
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