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Scientists Detect Common Fungicide in Pregnant Women and Children
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Mark Zylka, PhD, found measurable levels of a biomarker for azoxystrobin in pregnant women and young kids, and investigated the fungicide’s ability to pass from mothers to embryos in utero…
Scientists Identify Overgrowth of Key Brain Structure in Babies Who Later Develop Autism
Research led by Mark Shen, PhD, Heather Hazlett, PhD, and Joseph Piven, MD, from UNC-Chapel Hill is the first to demonstrate overgrowth of the amygdala in the first year of life, before babies show most…
Autism: ‘A Family Experience’
UNC-Chapel Hill alum Kelley Altman Greer ’92 has personally and professionally witnessed the impact of autism on individuals and families. As a school psychologist and counselor in the Atlanta area for 20-plus years, and throughout…
Clare Harrop Receives 5-Year NIH Award to Study Sex-Specific Trajectories in Autism Spectrum Disorder
From UNC Department of Allied Health Sciences | Office of Research and Scholarship (https://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/research/clare-harrop-receives-5-year-nih-award-to-study-sex-specific-trajectories-in-autism/) October 25, 2021 Clare Harrop, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, has received a 5-year, $3.28 million…
Bringing Autism Fathers Together
As fathers to children with autism, Mike Dempsey and Jamiel Owens agree that every family in their situation faces unique difficulties in their journey. They also agree that there is one rock-solid truth for every…
Breakthroughs In Early Intervention
Researchers work to find new and more accessible ways to detect and treat autism earlier. Two researchers in the UNC Department of Psychiatry are testing a new approach that may predict the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental…
Piven Appointed to Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee
From UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Joseph Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, was named as one of 22 public members of this federal committee that coordinates activities…
UNC TEACCH Researchers Awarded $9 Million for Study of Suicide Prevention Tailored for Youth on the Autism Spectrum
From UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Brenna Maddox, PhD, of the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC TEACCH Autism Program is a principal investigator of a PCORI-funded national study that will…
Key Brain Molecule May Play Role in Many Brain Disorders
Key Brain Molecule May Play Role in Many Brain Disorders From the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom April 6, 2021 UNC-Chapel Hill scientists discovered microRNA-29 is an important cellular switch controlling late-stage…
Scan of Genomes for Inherited Variants Implicates New Gene Important in Autism
Hyejung Won, PhD, and Jason Stein, PhD, in the UNC Department of Genetics and members of the UNC Neuroscience Center, led a genome-wide association study to find that lowered expression of a gene called DDHD2…