Yearly Archives: 2014

Mount Sinai a Lead Site in NIH-Funded Rare Diseases Consortium Studying Autism and Intellectual Disability

10-institution study seeks to pilot new treatment approaches NEW YORK, NY – October 15, 2014 /Press Release/  ––  Under a five-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rare Disease Clinical Research Network, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount … Continue reading

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New Shank3 Gene Research

Recently there has been an increase in the volume of research devoted to the SHANK3 gene mutation as a cause of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Below we have compiled a selection of these recent studies. Shank mutant mice as an … Continue reading

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New Grant Award to Study Effects of Shank3 Deficiency

The Seaver Autism Center has recently received a grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of Shank3 deficiency. The project will be led by Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, Director of the Seaver Autism Center, and … Continue reading

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Absence of strong strain effects in behavioral analyses of Shank3-deficient mice

Seaver Autism Center researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published a study in Disease Models and Mechanisms demonstrating that the range of mouse phenotypes caused by a Shank3 gene mutation does not depend on varied genetic … Continue reading

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Seaver Autism Center Distinguished Lecturer Series – Wed. Jan. 22nd

Seaver Autism Center Distinguished Lecturer Series “Swedish National Samples in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Psychiatric Genetics” Christina Hultman, PhD Professor Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5:30 – 6:30 PM This event is … Continue reading

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