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OpenMinds believes in research and has contributed to many research projects spearheaded by Dr. Rose-Mary Boustany both locally and internationally
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An Unusual Diagnosis made, But How do You Treat it?
Many physician-scientists strive to address this through applied research. In this age of genetics and genomics we in Lebanon have to pull Read More -
White Matter Tract Development In Autistic Toddlers
And Preschoolers By Diffusion Tensor Imaging And Correlation With Ongoing Therapies Read More -
Next Generation Sequencing Of Autism Genes In The Lebanese Population
And Their Functional Evaluation Read More -
Novel Paradigm For Eye Tracking
And Vision Screening In Autism Read More -
Efficacy Of Applied Behavior Analysis Intervention
In A Retrospective Pilot Study In Lebanon Read More -
ASD Genetics
Venn diagram depicting the comparison of copy number variations CNVs in autism patients (red circle), healthy controls (blue circle), and those wit Read More -
And, For The First Time, Prevalence Of Autism In Lebanon Has Been Determined….
Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Nurseries in Lebanon: a cross-sectional study. Read More -
OpenMinds Clinical Packages/AUBMC Special Kids Clinic (ASKC)/Research August 2022
For the ASKC and OpenMinds the aforementioned financial, health, and other calamities facing Lebanon have only translated into a larger than ever Read More -
Research Projects & Publications
Saab S, Chaaya M, Boustany R-M. Prevalence and correlates of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Le Read More -
Research Update at AUBMC December 2021
CLINICAL PACKAGES/BOUSTANY PUBLICATIONS 2021-2026 Read More -
Research Update at AUBMC - May 2020
Khalifeh Simone, Yassin Walid, Kourtian Silva, Boustany Rose-Mary, “ Autism in Review” serial no.2014/56, N° 64-2 (2016): pp 110-115 Lebanese Medical Journal Read More -
RESEARCH AT AUBMC
Times of great uncertainty do not preclude making advances in the health Sciences, either by or discovery of novel genes or development of effective treatments for neurogenetic disorders affecting our children. Read More -
Study unfolds brain structure changes in children with autism
Certain regions of the brain’s bumpy shell become unusually thick and convoluted over time in children with autism. Read More -
A novel oral treatment for a deadly neurodegenerative disease, juvenile NCL or CLN3 disease. Are Flupirtine analogues neuroprotective in the NCLs or Batten disease?
Fady Saade Med III; Karl Mansour, Joelle Makoukji PhD; Paul Trippier PhD and Rose-Mary Boustany MD. Read More -
A novel injectable treatment for a deadly neurodegenerative disease, juvenile NCL or CLN3 disease is being tried in a mouse model: GalactosylCeramide in CLN3-deficient mice (Batten Disease)
Sally El-Sitt (PhD student), Jihanne Souied PhD, Joelle Makoukji, PhD and Rose-Mary Boustany. Read More -
Is breastfeeding protective to development of autism??? Stay tuned…..
Breastfeeding and Autistic Disorders: is there an association? A case control study. Mona Nabulsi MD, Yolla Yousseff MD and Rose-Mary Boustany MD. Read More -
A state of the art new MRI technology called diffusion tensor imaging shows abnormalities in brains from children with autism, whereas conventional MRI does not.
White Matter Tract Development in Autistic Toddlers by DTI and Correlation with ongoing therapies. Maritherese Saade MA BCBA, Ahmad Hammoud MD, Rayan Tutounji PhD, Roula Hourani MD, Rose-Mary Boustany MD. Read More -
We are hunting for Autism Susceptibility Genes in The Lebanese Population….using the most advanced genetic, molecular biology and bioinformatics tools
RYR2, PTDSS1 and AREG genes are implicated in a Lebanese population-based study of copy number variation in autism. Silva Kourtian, Jihane Soueid, Nadine Makhoul, Simona Ghanem, Sariah Haddad, Joelle Makoukji, and Rose-Mary Boustany (Scientific Reports: 2015, in press) Read More
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