New familial autism link discovered

23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797
©2005 Associated New Media

Thanks for bringing this to us.

This type of research has the potential to help a lot of people in the
future.

Jeff

Vaccine-man wrote:
23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

TC

wrote:
Vaccine-man wrote:

23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797



Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

So? The Dr. Peterson that the articles refers to is in *Colorado* named
Eric Peter Peterson, MD, and the bull**** you posted refers to Eric
David Peterson, MD, the cardiologist. Of course, the other Dr. Eric W.
Peterson, the psychiatrist, also in North Carolina, may have been the
one...nope...his middle intial is 'W'.

If this shoots a big hole in your conspiracy theory crap, please learn
to live with it.

wrote:
Vaccine-man wrote:

23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797



Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

One more point...the second study referred to in the article is
confirmatory of the Peterson study. Replication and confirmation beats
conspiracy theories hands down.

Mark Probert wrote:


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

So? The Dr. Peterson that the articles refers to is in *Colorado* named
Eric Peter Peterson, MD, and the bull**** you posted refers to Eric
David Peterson, MD, the cardiologist. Of course, the other Dr. Eric W.
Peterson, the psychiatrist, also in North Carolina, may have been the
one...nope...his middle intial is 'W'.

I noticed that and was in the process of double-checking it. You are
correct and I apologize to the readers in this ng and Dr Peterson from
Colorado.

TC

wrote:
Mark Probert wrote:


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

So? The Dr. Peterson that the articles refers to is in *Colorado* named
Eric Peter Peterson, MD, and the bull**** you posted refers to Eric
David Peterson, MD, the cardiologist. Of course, the other Dr. Eric W.
Peterson, the psychiatrist, also in North Carolina, may have been the
one...nope...his middle intial is 'W'.


I noticed that and was in the process of double-checking it. You are
correct and I apologize to the readers in this ng and Dr Peterson from
Colorado.

When the name is common, checking is necessary. There are even multiple
me's.

OH, Just a slight thing, Vaccine man overlooked.

Uh huh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks, TC

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Vaccine-man wrote:
23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

TC

JanD wrote:
OH, Just a slight thing, Vaccine man overlooked.

Uh huh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks, TC

Well, TC, when I showed the error, was intellectually honest and
acknowledged that there was a mistake of identity since the article
referred to a different Dr. Peterson.

You posted your nonsense more than a half-hour after TC acknowledge the
error.

Now, Jan Drew, do you have enough intellectual honesty to acknowledge yours?


Hmmm???




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Vaccine-man wrote:

23/11/05 - Health news section

Autism family link discovered

Relatives of people with autism who do not have the disorder themselves
may still display behaviours and brain differences linked to the
condition, scientists have found.

The discovery could make it easier to spot families at risk of having
an autistic child.

It could also help in the quest to identify the genetic and
environmental triggers for the condition, characterised by emotional
detachment and an inability to relate to others.

Dr Eric Peterson, from the University of Colorado in Denver, USA,
compared the brain scans of 40 parents with autistic children with
those of 40 matched parents whose children were normal.

The parents of autistic children shared several differences in brain
structure with their offspring.

These included an unexpected increase in the size of the motor cortex
and basal ganglia, both areas linked to movement planning and
imitation.

The neighbouring somatosensory cortex, by contrast, was smaller than
average.

This region is important for understanding social information such as
facial expressions - a skill autistic people often lack.

There were also reductions in the cerebellum, important for
co-ordinating movement, and a frontal region thought to play a key role
in understanding the intentions of others.

Another study led by Brendon Nacewicz, from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School in the United States, tested for
avoidance of eye contact, a common feature of autism.

While parents seemed normal in this respect, brothers of autistic
children avoided eye contact just as strongly as their affected
siblings.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...page_id =1797


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

TC

"Mark Probert" wrote in message
...
wrote:
Mark Probert wrote:


Eric D. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.C., Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke
University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Received research grants from
Millenium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and CV Therapeutics.
On the speakers' bureaus for Millennium and Schering-Plough.
(Circulation. 2004;110:2506-49.)

***

All of these companies make vaccines.

So? The Dr. Peterson that the articles refers to is in *Colorado* named
Eric Peter Peterson, MD, and the bull**** you posted refers to Eric
David Peterson, MD, the cardiologist. Of course, the other Dr. Eric W.
Peterson, the psychiatrist, also in North Carolina, may have been the
one...nope...his middle intial is 'W'.


I noticed that and was in the process of double-checking it. You are
correct and I apologize to the readers in this ng and Dr Peterson from
Colorado.

When the name is common, checking is necessary. There are even multiple
me's.

But only ONY Mark S. Probert in NY.

The one that was D I S B A R R E D.