Recent research has identified specific patterns of brain activity that distinguish young children with autism from their ...

When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s ...

Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD often share symptoms, including challenges with social situations, staying ...

Dr. Robert Naviaux, a professor of medicine, pediatrics and pathology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the study’s lead author, estimated that 40-50% of autism cases could be prevented or ...

When there are fewer dendritic spines, fewer synapses are formed, and brain cells struggle to communicate properly. This ...

In the past few years, scientists have been working hard to understand mental health conditions like autism, schizophrenia, ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry found that brain volume changes correlate with social behavior differences in psychiatric conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The ...

A new UC San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum disorder.

By analyzing over 213,000 developing human brain cells, researchers show that many autism risk genes act through the ECM.

Scientists have long tried to pinpoint the exact causes of autism. Researchers from NYU Langone Health explored maternal illness during pregnancy. rh2010 - stock.adobe.com Despite decades of extensive ...

Paraeducators reported significantly greater confidence navigating challenging behaviors in autistic students after receiving training that encourages them to understand challenging behavior as a form ...

The study looked at kids in New York and New Jersey over a span of 16 years. Autism is on the rise among young children, according to a new study. The study, published Thursday in the journal ...