The Johns Hopkins Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology (CADDE) unites multi-disciplinary teams of researchers — from epidemiologists, statisticians, laboratory experts, psychologists, geneticists — to further the scientific knowledge about Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental disabilities. We collaborate with other research sites, federal agencies, and autism surveillance efforts -- in Maryland, elsewhere in the United States, and beyond.CADDE's mission is supported by another invaluable partner: the families affected by autism who graciously participate in research. We thank you!
In a new Pediatrics article, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the relationship between the co-occurring conditions in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and whether the children’s ASD diagnosis remained stable or changed. The study, “Co-occurring Conditions and Change in Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorders,” was published online Jan. 23 and will appear in the February edition of Pediatrics. The authors found that the type and number of co-occurring conditions vary by children’s age. These conditions include anxiety, depression, developmental delay, speech problems, and seizures. | ABC News Reuters WebMD Clinical Psychiatry CBS News | |
“Our study found that children with a current ASD are more likely to have co-occurring conditions compared to children who no longer have an ASD diagnosis,” said Heather Close, the study’s lead author. “Clinicians working with children with ASD need to recognize that certain co-existing conditions of autism differentiate children who continue having the diagnosis from children who no longer have the diagnosis,” said the senior author, Dr. Li-Ching Lee, a psychiatric epidemiologist. “Beside the core symptoms of autism, the clinicians would need to evaluate the child on these conditions." Both Lee and Close work at CADDE.
CADDE is proud to be one of six U.S. sites for the Study to Explore Early Development, a research project funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find the causes of autism that may be related to genetic and environmental risk factors. In Maryland, SEED began recruiting families in 2008, enrolling mothers and their children ages 2 to 5. Now, three years later, the youngest of these children are finishing up their participation—and CADDE is excited to announce a second phase of SEED, which will begin recruiting families in spring 2012! Read more...
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty M. Daniele Fallin and Li-Ching Lee are among the latest researchers to receive grants from Autism Speaks. Fallin is the director of the Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology, and Lee is a CADDE co-director. Read more...
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