Dr. Eric Courchesne

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  , and Dr. Eric Courchesne, a leading expert on the neurobiology of autism and Director of the UC San Diego Autism Center of Excellence.

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  One of six Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) in the country has been established at the University of California, San Diego by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to be directed by Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., professor of neurosciences at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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  The study, published in this week Journal of the American Medical Association, found autistic children’s skulls went from being smaller than 75 percent of children to larger than 84 percent of them at the end of the growth spurt, wrote lead author Eric Courchesne of the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla.
  
  "This burst of overgrowth takes place in a brief period of time, between about two months and six to 14 months of age," Courchesne said.
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  While the study was small it "is the first ... to our knowledge to find a potential early warning biological sign for autism and to link it to a later brain abnormality," Courchesne wrote. He agreed there is a need for a larger study.

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  "During this period of important learning and plasticity, when the brain is experiencing the world and deciding how to construct itself, it's growing too fast in the infant with autism," said the study's senior author Eric Courchesne, professor of neurosciences and director of the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital and Health Center at UC San Diego.
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  "This burst of overgrowth takes place in a brief period of time, between about two months and six to 14 months of age," Courchesne said.
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  "This dramatic brain growth in early life is the first active neuro-developmental process to be discovered in infants with autism," Courchesne added.
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  "Using our findings as an early indicator of autism, intervention might begin two or three years earlier when the brain might be at a more malleable stage and so, might result in a better outcome for the child," Courchesne said.

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  -- ERIC COURCHESNE (University of California, San Diego): Researchers at the UCSD ACE Center also will use brain imaging to track brain development in children believed to be at risk for autism spectrum disorders.

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  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D. Professor of Neurosciences Director, Center for Autism Research

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  "We can then further look into how this overgrowth leads to abnormal function, which leads to abnormal behavior," said Dr. Eric Courchesne, professor of neuroscience at UC-San Diego's School of Medicine.

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  Eric Courchesne
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  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.Children's Hospital at San DiegoAutism and Brain Development Lab
  
  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.He is also director of the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital Research Center, San Diego.His center is dedicated to uncovering the brain bases and biological causes of autism.
  
  Current postmortem cellular and molecular, as well as MRI studies, aim to identify the neural defects that are abnormal in autism and to discover patterns of abnormal brain growth from infancy through adulthood.Current functional brain imaging techniques are used to establish links between autistic symptoms and the brain sites responsible for them.
  
  Dr. Courchesne's studies have resulted in over 160 publications.His research is supported through grants from the National Institutes of Health.

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  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.Autism Society of America: About ASA: PPA Bios
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  Eric Courchesne
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  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.Children's Hospital at San DiegoAutism and Brain Development Lab
  
  Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.He is also director of the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital Research Center, San Diego.His center is dedicated to uncovering the brain bases and biological causes of autism.
  
  Current postmortem cellular and molecular, as well as MRI studies, aim to identify the neural defects that are abnormal in autism and to discover patterns of abnormal brain growth from infancy through adulthood.Current functional brain imaging techniques are used to establish links between autistic symptoms and the brain sites responsible for them.
  
  Dr. Courchesne's studies have resulted in over 160 publications.His research is supported through grants from the National Institutes of Health.

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  "Not an especially interesting finding," said Eric Courchesne, director of the Center for Autism Research at the San Diego Children's Hospital.
  
  It is unlikely this finding will have any significant impact on neuroscience research or on early identification or treatment of autism, Courchesne said."The study says nothing about the brain bases and nothing specific about the genetics or possible environmental factors that may cause the condition," he said.
  
  In fact, Courchesne thinks the finding might be a statistical fluke."Autism is a heterogeneous disorder, and when you get a huge enough sample, even small and possibly irrelevant statistical associations may be found," he said.

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