CDC data help communities better serve these children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 88...
For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their...
Multi-center study hones in on two genes as likely risk factors. Mutations in hundreds of genes involved in wiring the...
Boosts Sociability, Quells Repetitiveness – NIH Study National Institutes of Health researchers have reversed behaviors in mice resembling two of...
A recently evolved pattern of gene activity in the language and decision-making centers of the human brain is missing in...
What can a fish tell us about human brain development? Researchers at Duke University Medical Center transplanted a set of...
Oxytocin Improves Brain Function in Children with Autism Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine...
Antioxidant shows promise as treatment for certain features of autism, Stanford study finds A specific antioxidant supplement may be an...
Biologists take a new approach to deciphering the roles of genes associated with autism. Fish cannot display symptoms of autism,...
UCLA researchers have combined two tools — gene expression and the use of peripheral blood — to expand scientists’ arsenal...
A new study shows significant differences in brain development in high-risk infants who develop autism starting as early as age...
Researchers shed light on molecular cause of childhood’s worst conditions as first step toward developing more effective treatments.