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Helen Tager-Flusberg
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 279
Citations - 31503
Helen Tager-Flusberg is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Autism spectrum disorder. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 261 publications receiving 28511 citations. Previous affiliations of Helen Tager-Flusberg include Harvard University & University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Children with Autism: Interview Development and Rates of Disorders
Ovsanna T. Leyfer,Susan E. Folstein,Susan Bacalman,Naomi Ornstein Davis,Naomi Ornstein Davis,Elena Dinh,Jubel Morgan,Helen Tager-Flusberg,Janet E. Lainhart +8 more
TL;DR: The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia was modified for use in children and adolescents with autism by developing additional screening questions and coding options that reflect the presentation of psychiatric disorders in autism spectrum disorders.
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Ca(V)1.2 calcium channel dysfunction causes a multisystem disorder including arrhythmia and autism.
Igor Splawski,Katherine W. Timothy,Leah M. Sharpe,Niels Decher,Pradeep Kumar,Raffaella Bloise,Carlo Napolitano,Peter J. Schwartz,Robert M. Joseph,Karen Condouris,Helen Tager-Flusberg,Silvia G. Priori,Michael C. Sanguinetti,Mark T. Keating +13 more
TL;DR: Functional expression reveals that G406R produces maintained inward Ca(2+) currents by causing nearly complete loss of voltage-dependent channel inactivation, which likely induces intracellular Ca( 2+) overload in multiple cell types.
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Understanding other minds : perspectives from autism
TL;DR: The theory-of-minds hypothesis of autism has been studied extensively in the literature as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on the role of imitation in understanding persons and developing a theory of mind evolving over time.
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An investigation of language impairment in autism: Implications for genetic subgroups
TL;DR: There was significant heterogeneity in their language skills, although across all the children, articulation skills were spared and the profile of performance across the standardised measures for the languageimpaired children with autism was similar to the profile that defines the disorder specific language impairment (or SLI).
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Language and communication in autism
TL;DR: This article found that autistic children start using words around age 1 and develop conversational ability by 18 to 24 months, and that articulation, word use, syntax and morphology, echolalia (repetition with similar intonation of words/phrases someone else has said), and confusion of personal pronouns are affected.