Forskning

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  05/01/2023Autismepodden, Bøker, Forskning, Innlegg

  Chronicle of a Field Retold: Autism Science in Profile

  Instead of reflecting on autism through studies or statistics, for Spectrum’s fifth annual book, we sought a more personal lens: the lives of the people who research the condition.

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  03/11/2022Autismepodden, Forskning, Innlegg

  Autism brain signature most pronounced in sensory areas

  An analysis of 11 cortical regions shows anterior-to-posterior shifts in gene expression linked to autism.

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  15/09/2022Forskning, Innlegg

  Forskningsprosjektet BALU søker nye deltakere

  Forskningsprosjektet «Barn med Autisme: Læring og Utvikling» (BALU), som er ledet av førsteamanuensis Anett Kaale ved Universitetet i Oslo, søker nye deltakere fra hele Norge.

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  16/10/2020Autismepodden, Forskning, Innlegg, Kjønn og seksualitet

  Gender and sexuality in autism, explained

  Compared with neurotypical people, autistic people may be less influenced by social norms and so may present their internal selves more authentically. “You could then understand the co-occurrence as perhaps a more honest expression of underlying experiences,” says John Strang, director of the Gender and Autism Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

• 10/04/2020Autismepodden, Fakta, Forskning, Innlegg

  Autism’s relationship to head size, explained

  Some people with autism have an unusually large head: This fact has been known since autism was first described in the 1940s. But debate about this finding has raged ever Les mer

• 15/03/2020ASD - Autismespekterforstyrrelse, Asperger syndrom, Autisme, Barn og unge, Fakta, Forskning, Innlegg

  Vaksiner og COVID-19

  For å oppsummere finnes det ikke noe forskning som tyder på at det er en sammenheng mellom vaksiner og autisme. Det er dessuten mye høyere risiko forbundet med å ikke vaksineres en med å vaksineres.

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  01/01/2020Forskning, Innlegg

  Five hot topics in autism research in 2019

  This year, researchers unearthed clues to the causes of autism — and how to treat it —from a variety of sources. Advances in tiny models of the human brain bared new details about the biology of autism and provided possible platforms for testing therapies. Studies of heart rate put a spotlight on the autonomic nervous system as a potential wellspring of autism traits. And others forged a controversial connection between the gut microbiome and autism. A few studies revealed important information about the time points at which different forms of autism are amenable to therapy. This year also saw scrutiny of tests used for screening and diagnosis, revealing gaps and limitations in the system for identifying autistic children. Here are the year’s top five topics in autism research.