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Tero Toivanen

Journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment - Dove Press - 0 views

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  • Increasing evidence has shown that, in animal stroke models, administering melatonin significantly reduces infarct volume, edema, and oxidative damage and improves electrophysiological and behavioral performance.
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      Melatonin also improves behavioral performance.
  • Given that melatonin shows almost no toxicity to humans and possesses multifaceted protective capacity against cerebral ischemia, it is valuable to consider using melatonin in clinical trials on patients suffering from stroke.
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Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism: Language and Autism: Do kids with autism make... - 0 views

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  • The ASD performed worse than the typically developing group across the entire grammaticality judgment task. However, the authors noted that the groups did NOT differ when the sentences were short or medium length. That is, the apparent relative weaker performance among the ASD group was mostly during long sentences. In addition, these group differences were more pronounced when the error was located at the end of long sentences. This indicates that the group differences may be due to difficulty in working memory and attention among the autism group.
  • However, it is unlikely that these findings are only attributable to working memory problems. Specifically, the ASD groups showed impaired performance only to some type grammatical errors but not others. That is, the ASD group had difficulty identifying omissions and substitution errors, but did not show difficulty identifying order or insertion errors. This suggests that attention and working memory difficulties interact with some unique deficits in grammaticality judgment.
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    Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism: Language and Autism: Do kids with autism make grammatical errors when sentences are long?
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Sapere Audere: Sindrome de Joubert. - 0 views

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Sindrome de Joubert Joubert

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    Sindrome de Joubert. El sindrome de Joubert es una de esas raras condiciones geneticas que afectan a ciertas regiones (cerebelo y metencefalo) del cerebro.
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Experts point to lack of gesturing as reason for smaller vocabular... - 0 views

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bps gesturing vocabulary children

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  • The use of gestures, such as pointing, has been recognised as an important aspect of child development for some time. For example, the amount a child gestures at a young age predicts her later vocabulary size.
  • Rowe and Goldin-Meadow found that parents and children from poorer backgrounds (i.e. of low socioeconomic status) used a narrower range of gestures when they interacted with each other compared with parents and children from more affluent backgrounds.
  • Combining this observation with the earlier finding about the role of parental gesturing, implies but by no means proves, that one reason children from poor backgrounds develop smaller vocabularies is because their parents gestured to them less when they were younger.
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    BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Experts point to lack of gesturing as reason for smaller vocabulary in poor children
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Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism: Autism, neurofeedback , and the processing of... - 0 views

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autism neurofeedback novel distracters

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  • Children with autism show increased reaction time and unique brain wave patters during tasks that include novel distracters.
  • Children with autism show increased reaction time and unique brain wave patters during tasks that include novel distracters.
  • The participants completed an Odd-Ball task. In this task, the participants are asked to press a key when they see the target letter ( "X" ) on a computer screen. This target letter is presented 25% of the trials. For 50% of the trials a common distracter (the letter "O") is presented instead. For the remaining 25%, a set of novel distracters are presented (different symbols). The researchers recorded the reaction time, accuracy, and brain electrical functioning during the task.
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  • The results showed that participants with autism were slower to press on the key when the target X was presented than typically developing peers. However, the groups did not differ in accuracy of responding.
  • That is, both groups were equally accurate in responding to the X target, but the group with autism showed a slower patter of responses. The group with autism also showed a different pattern of brain activation when confronted with the novel distracters. Their differences were observed in both hemispheres, but were stronger in the right frontal regions. The pattern of responses observed (longer latencies and higher amplitudes) suggest greater effort when processing novel stimuli. This finding is intriguing because the brain response patterns to the other stimuli (target X and the common distracter O) were identical between the groups. These results suggest that the group with autism had difficulty processing and disengaging from novel distracting stimuli.
  • In neurofeedback, the person receives real-time feedback on their brain functioning and is taught how to progressively modify their responses. However, the debate regarding the effectiveness of neurofeedback is ongoing as the research is limited and highly contradictory.
  • Tero Toivanen on 09 Mar 09
     
    Children with autism show increased reaction time and unique brain wave patters during tasks that include novel distracters.
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Oklahoma parents of autistic children turning to oxygen therapy - People CD - Remodelin... - 0 views

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    Oklahoma parents of autistic children turning to oxygen therapy General discussion
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Asperger Square 8: Judging a Book by its Cover - 0 views

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  • I've heard too many cracks from "helpful" people, telling people not to call us autistics, or autistic people, but "people with autism," with the reasoning that "You don't call somebody a cancer patient, you call them a person with cancer." It makes me a little more sad and angry every time I see that comparison, and this... is the worst thing so far, in that vein.
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      How to call this people?
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    Judging a Book by its Cover
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Finding Perspective as an Autism Parent: First, Put on Your Own Breathing Mask - 0 views

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  • Emergency professionals are taught that the first person they must ensure is safe from harm at the scene of an emergency is themselves for the simple reason that if they are injured they are no longer in a position to help anyone else. The same holds true for parents for if they don’t protect their own wellbeing and collapse from the strain emotionally or if they drive themselves into financial ruin, they are no longer in a position to help their children with autism or to help their children who do not have autism.
  • Ever the most heroic emergency worker can be confronted by their personal limitations and, to be a good emergency worker, they must accept them so that “all is not lost” in the process of “trying to save everything.” For our families to survive, we parents of children with autism must also be realistic when facing our own personal limitations. No one else can face them for us.
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    Finding Perspective as an Autism Parent: First, Put on Your Own Breathing Mask
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mymoondrops Tracing Paper

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    Type in your child's name or any word. The program automatically opens a new window and then fills the page.
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aspergerdvdseries Aspereger Syndrome Professor's Guide

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    This title in the new DVD series Asperger Syndrome and Adulthood focuses on educating professors, teaching assistants, and others on what it means to be a college student on the spectrum and how they might best be able to help them succeed.
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The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development - 0 views

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    The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development.
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Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism: Vision problems in autism: Reduced convergence? - 0 views

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autism vision problems reduced convergence

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  • The authors found that 11% of the typically developing children and 31% of the ASD had a documented visual impairment (myopia, astigmatism, etc). This difference was statistically significant. That is, children with ASD were significantly more likely than typically developing children to have these conditions. Children with autism also displayed significantly poorer visual acuity (but within normal limits), and lower convergence. Convergence refers to the process by which the eyes move towards each other to maintain focus on approaching or close-range objects.
  • The findings of reduced visual acuity in children with autism when compared to typically developing children contradict previous studies that have shown enhanced visual acuity in autism. This brings us to a major limitation of this study that was correctly noted by the authors.
  • Limited convergence therefore would be associated with more limited depth perception. I find this intriguing because the neuropsychological profile of children with high functioning autism is often very similar to what is observed in kids with non-verbal learning disabilities (including relative weaknesses in motor-visual functioning). In addition, many parents with children with ASD report that their kids have trouble with sports and other physical activities. I thus wonder how much the reduced convergence observed in ASD may affect the motor-visual functioning in autism.
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  • Clinically, I was also intrigued by the high rates of vision problems found among the ASD group. Although, as I mentioned, this may be due to a self-selection of the parents who agreed to participate, this is consistent with data suggesting that children with developmental disorders are more likely to have visual problems than typically developing children
  • Tero Toivanen on 06 Mar 09
     
    Analysis of visual functioning in children with autism suggests impairment in visual convergence. A brief review of: Elizabeth Milne, Helen Griffiths, David Buckley, Alison Scope (2009). Vision in Children and Adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Evidence for Reduced Convergence Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0705-8
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Toilet Train - How to Toilet Train a Child with Autism - 0 views

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    Toilet Train Your Child with Autism
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Autism and Parental Obsession: A Troublesome Mix - 0 views

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  • But what really troubled me about both of these books is the obsessive nature of each author's focus on her child's autism - and the assumption, on the part of both authors, that all parents should be equally obsessed.
  • Not only is it fiscally, personally and physically dangerous to become obsessive about autism treatments, but the the promise of a cure is disingenuous. The probability of a child with autism being literally cured is astronomically small (though of course symptoms can lessen and all children gain new skills). By playing on parents guilt and anxiety, though, it's not too hard to push families to the brink of financial, physical and personal collapse.
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    Autism and Parental Obsession: A Troublesome Mix
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