Dr. Julie L. Daniels This is Me

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   Published on: 6/4/2008   Last Visited: 8/22/2008

   "Our research shows that mothers and fathers diagnosed with schizophrenia were about twice as likely to have a child diagnosed with autism," said Julie Daniels of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who worked on the study.
   
   "We also saw higher rates of depression and personality disorders among mothers, but not fathers," she said in a statement.
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   "Earlier studies have shown a higher rate of psychiatric disorders in families of autistic children than in the general population," Daniels said.
   
   The association between a child's autism and mental illness in the parent was strongest with schizophrenia, and was less powerful when the mother suffered from depression or personality disorders.There was little association between autism and parental addiction to alcohol or drugs or some other types of mental illness.
   
   It was not clear if it was significant that having a mother, but not a father, with certain mental illnesses, raised the risk of autism.
   
   "Establishing an association between autism and other psychiatric disorders might enable future investigators to better focus on genetic and environmental factors that might be shared among these disorders," Daniels said.

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   Published on: 5/5/2008   Last Visited: 5/9/2008

   "This study might help us pinpoint some more genetic ties to more cases [of autism]," added study lead author Julie Daniels, assistant professor of epidemiology and maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill.
   
   She and her colleagues published their research in the May issue of Pediatrics.
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   SOURCES: Jon Shaw, M.D., director and professor, division of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; Julie L. Daniels, Ph.D., assistant professor, epidemiology and maternal and child health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; May 2008 Pediatrics

3. 3. www.life.ca

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   Last Visited: 12/10/2007

   Dr. Julie Daniels, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health says the research adds to the literature suggesting that fish contains nutrients that may enhance early brain development."We can not say that we have proven that eating fish will have long-lasting effects in making people smarter since we have only looked at early development markers through an observational study," she says in a report on the study that appears in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology.