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Library Categories > Research > University of Washington pioneers autism-prevention study: Puget Sound infants needed for presymptomatic evaluation

 
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University of Washington pioneers autism-prevention study: Puget Sound infants needed for presymptomatic evaluation 		   
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Researchers at the University of Washington were recently granted $11.3 million to work on the prevention of autism. Their work will be the first study done with a pre-symptomatic population who are thought to be at risk for autism because they have an autistic sibling.

While the latest research shows that autism affects as many as one in every 150 newborns in the United States, about one of every 20 infants who have an older sibling with autism will develop the disorder.

"This is the first trial attempt to intervene and treat infants who are at risk for autism at the earliest time that symptoms are present," said Annette Estes, associate director of the UW Autism Center and research assistant professor of psychiatry and behavior science, who will head the clinical assessment component of the new study.

Researchers hope to work with 200 families in the course of this five-year study. "We are eternally optimistic," said Sara Webb, research assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, in regard to the amount of subjects needed for the study. "You have to be to undertake something of this scope."
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University of Washington,  infant study
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02/06/2008by: shannonj
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