Autism Hope in 'Love Hormone'  A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and babies may foster social behaviour in some adults with autism, say researchers. They found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were more likely to understand social cues in a game simulation, the researchers said in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Angela Sirigu of the Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience in Lyon, who led the study, said the hormone has a therapeutic potential in adults as well as in children with autism.
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DSM Changes Affect Asperger’s Syndrome  New guidelines under consideration for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) would place the mental disorder Asperger’s syndrome into a more general diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, the American Psychiatric Association recently announced. This was just one of many controversial revisions suggested for the Bible of the psychiatric profession, due to be published in 2013. The DSM is the definitive reference used by psychologists for the diagnosis of mental disorders. The manual also provides the basis for utilization review and reimbursement policies by insurance companies, as well as guidance for pharmaceutical companies looking for opportunities in the development of new psychiatric drugs.
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Team Tackles Autism
from Red Deer Advocate  Seven-year-old Matthew Colombo and his autism assistance dog guide, Cash, are a wicked team. To start with, both are as cute as a bug so watching the bond gently forming between the pair is heartwarming and affirming. For Chris Fowler, this bond is critical. Chris is head trainer for the autism assistance dog guides, part of the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides’ programs where he and his wife, Heather Fowler, apprenticed. In 1996 the couple launched National Service Dogs, a non-profit organization west of Cambridge, Ont., that trains dogs for children like Ma tthew, children with autism.
Guide dogs...
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