The committee meeting held on April 26, was also attended by 10 senior doctors from the fields of pathology, neurology, pediatrics, medicine and psychiatry from leading medical schools in the city and Pune.
Previous research suggests that ENT conditions, such as ear infections, 'glue ear', and sleep-disordered breathing, may have a role in the development of autism. But most of this evidence is based on health records, which may have biased these findings, because parents of children with suspected autism may be more likely than other parents to seek medical help for their offspring, explain the researchers.
The discovery of these chemicals offers information on the biological mechanisms that cause ASD and may pave the way for early diagnosis and therapy. Researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health led the investigation. The findings were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
They discovered patterns of brain connections associated with behavioural traits such as verbal ability, social affect, and repetitive or stereotypic behaviours in people with autism. They confirmed that the four autism subgroups could be replicated in a separate dataset and demonstrated that differences in regional gene expression and protein-protein interactions account for the brain and behavioural differences.
The scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, US, also said that the results of their study, based on data from Denmark, need to be replicated in other populations and areas of the world. They have published their results in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics.
On the eve of "World Autism Awareness Day" on Saturday experts said this flare-up of symptoms due to screen exposure is called ‘virtual autism’ and cases are on the rise in the post pandemic era, especially in children under the age of five.
Affecting about 1 in every 100 people in how they think, feel and behave, schizophrenia is among the most serious mental illnesses. The affected appear to have lost touch with reality, proving to be distressing for them and their close ones.
With the stay given by the state health minister, we have now restarted our work at the hospital. Our patients from all over the country and across the world are grateful as they have been patiently waiting for us to restart our treatment: Dr Sharma
Stem cell therapy is a controversial topic, and many parental groups and medical associations have in the past spoken up against it. The Forum for Autism had a few years back invited ICMR officials and senior neurologists and NeuroGen Hospital owner, Dr Alok Sharma, for a discussion on the therapy; experts were against it.
This neurodevelopmental disorder is associated with a wide range of physiological and behavioural symptoms, including deficits in communication, cognition and motor function, as well as seizures and hyperactivity.
In the study, led by researchers at the Autism Research Centre, evealed that autistic parents were around three times more likely than non-autistic parents to report having experienced prenatal depression (9 per cent of non-autistic parents and 24 per cent of autistic parents) and anxiety (14 per cent of non-autistic parents and 48 per cent of autistic parents).
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