Autistic and autism community perspectives on infant and family support in the first two years of life: Findings from a community consultation survey.

Most support programmes for Autistic children are available only after they are diagnosed. Research suggests that parenting supports may be helpful for parents and their infants, when provided in the first 2 years of life - before a formal diagnosis is given, but when information suggests an infant is more likely to be Autistic. However, we do not know how acceptable these types of supports might be to the Autistic and autism communities.

Human immunodeficiency virus 1-associated minor motor disorders: perfusion-weighted MR imaging and H MR spectroscopy.

Purpose: To investigate whether advanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques such as diffusion-weighted (DW) and perfusion-weighted (PW) MR imaging and hydrogen 1 (1H) MR spectroscopy can depict functional and pathophysiologic mechanisms in patients who have minor motor deficits (MMDs) associated with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1).

Materials And Methods: Thirty-two patients with results seropositive for HIV-1 and different degrees of HIV-1-related MMD underwent conventional brain MR imaging, as well as DW and PW MR imaging and 1H MR spectroscopy of the basal ganglia. PW MR imaging data were computed pixel by pixel for creation of time-to-peak, relative regional cerebral blood volume, and bolus amplitude parameter maps.

Virtual arterial endoscopy as a diagnostic aid in a patient with basilar artery fenestration and thromboembolic pontine infarct.

Focal signal intensity loss of the basilar artery on MR angiograms obtained in a 69-year-old man was considered to be caused by an embolus, and thrombolytic therapy was initiated. On the follow-up MR angiograms, the same oval signal intensity loss of the basilar artery was observed. On the basis of a virtual endoscopic look into the basilar artery, the diagnosis of a rare vascular anomaly--a fenestration of the basilar artery--was confirmed and the presence of a thrombus at the site of the signal intensity loss was excluded.