Publications related to Autism Speaks

The autism susceptibility kinase, TAOK2, phosphorylates eEF2 and modulates translation

Genes implicated in translation control have been associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, some important genetic causes of autism, including the 16p11.2 microdeletion, bear no obvious connection to translation. Here, we use proteomics, g ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

Individual differences in sensory sensitivity: Further lessons from an Autism model

Henry Markram, Kamila Markram, Mônica Regina Favre

In this commentary, we join Ward (this issue) in the usefulness of conceptualizing neural output in terms of signal and noise relationships, to create the missing links between neural, behavioral and subjective sensory sensitivity. We draw from our work in ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

Electrophysiological correlates of visual backward masking in the schizophrenia continuum

Ophélie Gladys Favrod

In visual backward masking (VBM), a target is followed by a mask. Over the past decade, a VBM task, called the Shine-Through paradigm (ST), has been shown to be a very sensitive endophenotype of schizophrenia. In the present thesis, the electrophysiologica ...

EPFL2019

Predictable enriched environment prevents development of hyper-emotionality in the VPA rat model of autism

Henry Markram, Julie Meystre, Deborah La Mendola, Kamila Markram, Mônica Regina Favre, Melissa Cochrane, Dimitri Marco Christodoulou

Understanding the effects of environmental stimulation in autism can improve therapeutic interventions against debilitating sensory overload, social withdrawal, fear and anxiety. Here, we evaluate the role of environmental predictability on behavior and pr ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

The 16p11.2 locus modulates brain structures common to autism, schizophrenia and obesity

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Loyse Hippolyte

Anatomical structures and mechanisms linking genes to neuropsychiatric disorders are not deciphered. Reciprocal copy number variants at the 16p11.2 BP4-BP5 locus offer a unique opportunity to study the intermediate phenotypes in carriers at high risk for a ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Emotional contagion for pain is intact in autism spectrum disorders

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Loyse Hippolyte, Ophélie Rogier, Torsten Ruest

Perceiving others in pain generally leads to empathic concern, consisting of both emotional and cognitive processes. Empathy deficits have been considered as an element contributing to social difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Hyper-emotional neurophysiology in a rat model of autism

Mônica Regina Favre

Autism is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by a spectrum of symptoms of social impairment, abnormal communication, and unusual restricted, inflexible behaviors. Patients also frequently present various levels of se ...

EPFL2013

A randomised controlled trial of bumetanide in the treatment of autism in children

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated synapses and the oscillations they orchestrate are altered in autism. GABA-acting benzodiazepines exert in some patients with autism paradoxical effects, raising the possibility that like in epilepsies, GABA excites ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

WearCam: A head mounted wireless camera for monitoring gaze attention and for the diagnosis of developmental disorders in young children

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Olivier Barbey

Autism covers a large spectrum of disorders that affect the individual’s way of interacting socially and is often revealed by the individual’s lack of interest in gazing at human faces. Currently Autism is diagnosed in children no younger than 2 years old. ...

2007

The role of the amygdala in emotional memories : a multidisciplinary approach

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Kamila Markram

This thesis investigates the role of the amygdala for the establishment of fear memories with a multidisciplinary approach, including behavioural, psychopharmacological, genetic, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques in rats or mice, under healthy ...

EPFL2007

Altered neocortical microcircuitry in the valproic acid rat model of autism

Tania Rinaldi

Autism is a wide-spectrum disorder with early childhood onset, affecting general cognitive capabilities and, in particular, complex information processing. Although interesting directions of research start to appear, the precise causes of the disorder and ...

EPFL2006