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page-content main-wrapper"> <div class="shadow-right">  <div id="main"> <div id="main-inside" class="clear-block">  <div id="primary-content"> <div class="blocks"> <h1 class="title archive-tag">Posts tagged <span class="altText">autism</span></h1> <div class="divider"></div>  <div id="post-4898" class="hentry post post-1 odd author-cmarizzi category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-emotion post_tag-empathy post_tag-golden-rule post_tag-moral post_tag-oxt post_tag-oxtr post_tag-oxytocin post_tag-vasopressin clear-block"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2013/01/09/naughty-or-nice-the-moral-molecule/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Naughty or nice? The Moral Molecule">Naughty or nice? The Moral Molecule</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Jan 9th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block "> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/cmarizzi/" title="Posts by Christine Marizzi ">Christine Marizzi</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2013/01/09/naughty-or-nice-the-moral-molecule/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature03701"></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Oxytocin (ball-and-stick) bound to its carrier protein neurophysin (ribbons) based on: "Crystal structure of the neurophysin-oxytocin complex" Rose, J.P., Wu, C.K., Hsiao, C.D., Breslow, E., Wang, B.C. (1996) Nat.Struct.Biol. 3: 163-169</p> <p>I recently enjoyed a truly mind-blowing talk at the <a href="http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=a2c91ba1-b351-4e8b-a2ab-f8f8db89fa5b">New York Academy of Sciences</a>. The <em>Neuroeconomist</em> (yes, he studied Economy and is founding director of Claremont´s <a href="http://www.neuroeconomicstudies.org/">Center for Neuroeceonomic Studies</a>) Paul J. Zak spoke about his research on the brain chemical oxytocin (OXT) – the so-called “love hormone” – and how he showed that OXT is the source of love and prosperity, triggering a wide variety of physical and psychological effects <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2013/01/09/naughty-or-nice-the-moral-molecule/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/emotion/" rel="tag" title="emotion (2 topics)">emotion</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/empathy/" rel="tag" title="empathy (1 topics)">empathy</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/golden-rule/" rel="tag" title="golden rule (1 topics)">golden rule</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/moral/" rel="tag" title="moral (1 topics)">moral</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/oxt/" rel="tag" title="OXT (1 topics)">OXT</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/oxtr/" rel="tag" title="OXTR (1 topics)">OXTR</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/oxytocin/" rel="tag" title="Oxytocin (1 topics)">Oxytocin</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/vasopressin/" rel="tag" title="vasopressin (1 topics)">vasopressin</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-4699" class="hentry post post-2 even alt author-williams category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-genetics post_tag-genome-sequencing post_tag-neuroscience clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/04/10/multiple-paths-to-autism/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Autismbrain-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Autism and the Brain" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/04/10/multiple-paths-to-autism/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Multiple Paths to Autism">Multiple Paths to Autism</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Apr 10th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/williams/" title="Posts by Jason Williams ">Jason Williams</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/04/10/multiple-paths-to-autism/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p>There was a great deal of excitement last week as intriguing findings published in Nature yield clues into the mystery of autism. <a href="http://www.g2conline.org/#Autism">Autism</a>, or more correctly put Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are defects in neural development that manifest themselves early in childhood as affected children have difficulties in socialization and language skills. Like any childhood disease autism is unimaginably frustrating for the millions of parents and relatives that have to find the best way to cope with a child who will have unexpected needs. Even more frustrating perhaps is the unanswered questions surrounding the cause of the disease and the <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/04/10/multiple-paths-to-autism/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genetics/" rel="tag" title="genetics (12 topics)">genetics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genome-sequencing/" rel="tag" title="genome sequencing (1 topics)">genome sequencing</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/neuroscience/" rel="tag" title="Neuroscience (4 topics)">Neuroscience</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-4181" class="hentry post post-3 odd author-cutillo category-yourgenesyourhealth post_tag-autism post_tag-brain post_tag-chromosome post_tag-disease post_tag-dna post_tag-fruit-flies post_tag-genes post_tag-genetic-disease post_tag-genome post_tag-model-organisms post_tag-organisms clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/12/model-organisms/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/220px-Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_aka1-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="220px-Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_(aka)" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/12/model-organisms/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Model Organisms">Model Organisms</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Oct 12th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/cutillo/" title="Posts by Jennifer Galasso ">Jennifer Galasso</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/yourgenesyourhealth/">Your Genes, Your Health</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/12/model-organisms/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p>I asked a group of 5th graders the other day whether or not we can learn anything from studying other living things. For example, if we mutate or change the DNA of another organism, like fruit flies (<em>D. melanogaster)</em>, can we learn anything about what can happen when human DNA changes? For this particular class, it seemed to be an absolutely absurd question. This could have been because the thought of fruit flies made them ill right before lunch, or they were unsure about how much we have in common with fruit flies.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/220px-Drosophila_melanogaster_-_side_aka1.jpg"></a>So we got into a discussion about model <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/10/12/model-organisms/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/brain/" rel="tag" title="brain (19 topics)">brain</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/chromosome/" rel="tag" title="chromosome (1 topics)">chromosome</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/disease/" rel="tag" title="disease (13 topics)">disease</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/dna/" rel="tag" title="dna (36 topics)">dna</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/fruit-flies/" rel="tag" title="Fruit flies (1 topics)">Fruit flies</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genes/" rel="tag" title="genes (11 topics)">genes</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genetic-disease/" rel="tag" title="genetic disease (7 topics)">genetic disease</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genome/" rel="tag" title="Genome (8 topics)">Genome</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/model-organisms/" rel="tag" title="model organisms (1 topics)">model organisms</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/organisms/" rel="tag" title="organisms (1 topics)">organisms</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-1583" class="hentry post post-4 even alt author-aiello category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-cerebral-cortex post_tag-development post_tag-fetus post_tag-neuron clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/02/18/the-firing-of-developing-neurons/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Neuron-SEM-100x100.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Neuron-SEM" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/02/18/the-firing-of-developing-neurons/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Firing of Developing Neurons">The Firing of Developing Neurons</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Feb 18th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/aiello/" title="Posts by Jennifer Aiello ">Jennifer Aiello</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/02/18/the-firing-of-developing-neurons/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Neuron-SEM.png"></a>At the University of Connecticut Health Center, researchers are now studying the development of neurons and their young firing patterns. It has been discovered that the neurons of fetuses as young as 20 to 21 weeks old fire in patterns that can be seen into adulthood. This is a glimpse into young nerve cells and can serve a basis to understanding what happens when brain development goes wrong.</p> <p>The neurons fire pulses with periods of rest in between. This is commonly seen in sleeping adults. These pulses were seen between neurons located in the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is involved <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/02/18/the-firing-of-developing-neurons/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/cerebral-cortex/" rel="tag" title="cerebral cortex (1 topics)">cerebral cortex</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/development/" rel="tag" title="development (3 topics)">development</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/fetus/" rel="tag" title="fetus (1 topics)">fetus</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/neuron/" rel="tag" title="neuron (2 topics)">neuron</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-1433" class="hentry post post-5 odd author-admin category-g2conline post_tag-autism clear-block"> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/06/25/autism-and-gut-bacteria/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Autism and Gut Bacteria?">Autism and Gut Bacteria?</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Jun 25th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block "> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/admin/" title="Posts by admin ">admin</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/06/25/autism-and-gut-bacteria/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/E.coli_.jpg"></a>Here at the DNALC, we work with a lot of bacteria. One bacteria in particular is a harmless strain of <em>E. coli</em> called MM294. This strain, a strain unable to survive outside of its broth and agar domain, is used commonly in our classrooms. As students visit us each year, many have the opportunity to work with the bacteria. Whenever I tell my students that they will be working with <em>E. coli</em>, I tend to be on the receiving end of much criticism.</p> <p><em>E. coli </em>gets a bad reputation and I understand that. My students immediately cringe and I know what goes <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/06/25/autism-and-gut-bacteria/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-1172" class="hentry post post-6 even alt author-connolly category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-big-pharma post_tag-conspircay post_tag-lancet post_tag-medicine post_tag-pharmaceutical post_tag-profit post_tag-propaganda post_tag-science post_tag-vaccination post_tag-vaccine post_tag-wakefield clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Syringe-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Syringe" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: The Autism-Vaccine Link and Trusting Science">The Autism-Vaccine Link and Trusting Science</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Feb 8th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Syringe.jpg"></a>Almost twelve years after its original publication, <em><a href="http://www.lancet.com/">The Lancet</a></em> medical journal has <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960175-7/fulltext">formally retracted the infamous paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues</a> that had posited a link between vaccines and autism. This follows a partial retraction in 2004, and succeeds the stern judgment by the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel “that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield <em>et. al. </em>are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.”</p> <p>So that finally puts the autism-vaccination link to bed, right? Wrong. To read some responses in the blogosphere, one could assume that <em>The Lancet </em>had declared war on all <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/02/08/autism-vaccine-link-finally-over/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/big-pharma/" rel="tag" title="big pharma (1 topics)">big pharma</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/conspircay/" rel="tag" title="conspircay (1 topics)">conspircay</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/lancet/" rel="tag" title="lancet (1 topics)">lancet</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medicine/" rel="tag" title="medicine (6 topics)">medicine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/pharmaceutical/" rel="tag" title="pharmaceutical (1 topics)">pharmaceutical</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/profit/" rel="tag" title="profit (1 topics)">profit</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/propaganda/" rel="tag" title="propaganda (1 topics)">propaganda</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/science/" rel="tag" title="science (1 topics)">science</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/vaccination/" rel="tag" title="vaccination (1 topics)">vaccination</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/vaccine/" rel="tag" title="vaccine (3 topics)">vaccine</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/wakefield/" rel="tag" title="wakefield (1 topics)">wakefield</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-939" class="hentry post post-7 odd author-williams category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-kim-peek post_tag-memory post_tag-obituary post_tag-savant post_tag-savantism clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/12/28/remembering-kim-peek/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Peek2-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Peek2" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/12/28/remembering-kim-peek/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Remembering Kim Peek">Remembering Kim Peek</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Dec 28th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/williams/" title="Posts by Jason Williams ">Jason Williams</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/12/28/remembering-kim-peek/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Peek2.jpg"></a>Kim Peek (November 11, 1951 – December 19, 2009) was an inconceivably gifted savant. In today’s terms we might describe him as a living version of Google, but far better. He could of course, give you driving directions to any place in the country, and open the entire course of human history with names, dates, facts and figures to astonishing accuracy, but he was more than this, he was a person. He was a person doing things that no one would think a person could do, and that is the signature of savantism.</p> <p>It is important to remember that savantism is <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/12/28/remembering-kim-peek/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/kim-peek/" rel="tag" title="kim peek (1 topics)">kim peek</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/memory/" rel="tag" title="memory (3 topics)">memory</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/obituary/" rel="tag" title="obituary (1 topics)">obituary</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/savant/" rel="tag" title="savant (1 topics)">savant</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/savantism/" rel="tag" title="savantism (1 topics)">savantism</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-603" class="hentry post post-8 even alt author-williams category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-cure post_tag-drugs post_tag-gma post_tag-good-morning-america post_tag-marijuana post_tag-media post_tag-medication clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/11/30/autism-and-marijuana/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/marijuana-leaf-100x100.gif" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="marijuana-leaf" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/11/30/autism-and-marijuana/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Autism and Marijuana">Autism and Marijuana</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Nov 30th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/williams/" title="Posts by Jason Williams ">Jason Williams</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/11/30/autism-and-marijuana/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/marijuana-leaf.gif"></a>This morning, “Good Morning America,” a popular morning news program in the U.S. told the story of a mother with an autistic child who was “treating” him with marijuana. I use quotation marks, and will make other cautionary notes here, because this blog is not meant to represent any forum of medical advice.</p> <p>At the time of writing this, the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/">GMA website</a>, which usually posts follow-ups, has nothing on their site, which I found a little strange. The mother also appeared not with another member of her family, but a lawyer, who was also a family friend. I wondered how these <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/11/30/autism-and-marijuana/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/cure/" rel="tag" title="cure (2 topics)">cure</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/drugs/" rel="tag" title="drugs (4 topics)">drugs</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/gma/" rel="tag" title="gma (1 topics)">gma</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/good-morning-america/" rel="tag" title="good morning america (1 topics)">good morning america</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/marijuana/" rel="tag" title="marijuana (1 topics)">marijuana</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/media/" rel="tag" title="Media (2 topics)">Media</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/medication/" rel="tag" title="Medication (1 topics)">Medication</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-269" class="hentry post post-9 odd author-connolly category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-bill post_tag-genetics post_tag-geschwind clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/defining-the-enemy-advances-in-autsim-research/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/GeschwindJP2-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="GeschwindJP2" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/defining-the-enemy-advances-in-autsim-research/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Defining the Enemy, Advances in Autsim Research">Defining the Enemy, Advances in Autsim Research</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Oct 5th</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/defining-the-enemy-advances-in-autsim-research/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/GeschwindJP2.jpg"></a>For most people the ideas of genes and traits recall a few scattered facts from their primary schooling on Mendel and his pea plants; short ones, tall ones, Punnett squares and the like. When it comes it comes to simple traits, like eye color, people may think that it is only a matter of some combination of dominant or recessive genes, i.e. BB, Bb, or bb. As it turns out, eye color is more genetically complex than this. So one could imagine that solving the genetic mysteries behind autism are even more complex.</p> <p>In a recent review of autism research, Brent <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/10/05/defining-the-enemy-advances-in-autsim-research/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/bill/" rel="tag" title="bill (1 topics)">bill</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/genetics/" rel="tag" title="genetics (12 topics)">genetics</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/geschwind/" rel="tag" title="geschwind (1 topics)">geschwind</a> </div> </div>   <div id="post-657" class="hentry post post-10 even alt author-connolly category-g2conline post_tag-autism post_tag-neuroscience post_tag-schizophrenia clear-block"> <a class="post-thumb size-post-thumbnail alignleft" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/04/02/schizophrenia-and-autism-opposite-ends-of-the-same-spectrum/"><img width="100" height="100" src="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/g2cblog_schiz_autism_thumb-100x100.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="g2cblog_schiz_autism_thumb" /></a> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/04/02/schizophrenia-and-autism-opposite-ends-of-the-same-spectrum/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Schizophrenia and Autism – Opposite Ends of the Same Spectrum?">Schizophrenia and Autism – Opposite Ends of the Same Spectrum?</a></h2> <div class="post-date"> <p class="day">Apr 2nd</p> </div> <div class="post-info clear-block with-thumbs"> <p class="author alignleft">Posted by <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/author/connolly/" title="Posts by connolly ">connolly</a> in <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/category/sitetopics/g2conline/">G2C Online</a> </p> <p class="comments alignright"><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/04/02/schizophrenia-and-autism-opposite-ends-of-the-same-spectrum/#comments" class="no comments">No comments</a></p> </div> <div class="post-content clear-block"> <p><a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/g2cblog_schiz_autism_thumb.jpg"></a>Bernard Crespi, an evolutionary geneticist at the Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has proposed that schizophrenia and autism are the opposite ends of the same social spectrum. Speaking at the Sackler Colloquium on Evolution in Health and Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, Crespi noted that copy number variations (CNVs) in the human genome are similar for both schizophrenia and autism. What are CNVs and what evidence is their to support Crespi’s hypothesis?</p> <p><strong>What are CNVs? </strong></p> <p>Copy number variations are spontaneous mutations in the genome that result in duplications or deletions of the genomic sequence. Duplications can produce extra <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2009/04/02/schizophrenia-and-autism-opposite-ends-of-the-same-spectrum/">More ></a></p> </div> <div class="post-tags"> <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/autism/" rel="tag" title="autism (10 topics)">autism</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/neuroscience/" rel="tag" title="Neuroscience (4 topics)">Neuroscience</a>, <a href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/tag/schizophrenia/" rel="tag" title="schizophrenia (8 topics)">schizophrenia</a> </div> </div>  </div> </div>  <div id="sidebar"> <ul class="blocks"> <li class="block"><div class="block-widget_search clear-block" id="instance-search-3">  <div class="search-form"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://blogs.dnalc.org/" class="clear-block"> <fieldset> <div id="searchfield"> <input type="text" name="s" id="searchbox" class="text clearField" value="Search" /> </div> <input type="submit" value="" class="submit" /> </fieldset> </form> </div>  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IQ tests are overated. They are based on assumptions about the nature of intelligence,...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Cancer Overtreatment. When the solution is worse than the problem." class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/13/cancer-overtreatment-when-the-solution-is-worse-than-the-problem/#comment-5439"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=32' class='avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">points of view: <span class="details"> On My Twitter Feed... Then I checked my personal feed and saw somebody posting the link to the...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Tag…You’re It!" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2012/01/19/tag-youre-it/#comment-5359"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> the wonders of science i wanna be performing this epigenetic tag therapy.</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Merry Christmas to Hemophilia Patients" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/12/15/merry-christmas-to-hemophilia-patients/#comment-5358"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/52935aba909ed59a5789008268b14fdb?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">talha: <span class="details"> this is just a tip of an iceberg whats gonna happen more and more can only be expected from gene...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: DNA DAY 2010: What, me worry about my DNA?" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2010/04/29/dna-day-2010-what-me-worry-about-my-dna/#comment-4616"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/fe0f32261332c54b99b24c06881c2573?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Traci: <span class="details"> How would I go about getting my DNA tested? 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This is just another step to curing some of the most devastating diseases...</span></span></a></li> <li class="clear-block"><a title="Posted in: Compulsive Hoarding" class="fadeThis" href="http://blogs.dnalc.org/2011/11/10/compulsive-hoarding/#comment-1245"><span class="avatar"><img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cf95176c58575d503b402764e9710135?s=32&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D32&r=G' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' /></span><span class="entry">Eileen @ Space Matters: <span class="details"> You've got some very interesting info here! 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