A recent brain imaging study reveals that the reward system is hyper-connected to other social networks in autistic ...

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa found a link between vascular deficits and autism.

A recent study analyzed brain scans to explore how social networks function in autistic individuals compared to neurotypical peers. Researchers found that the brain's reward system in autistic people ...

Children with more autistic traits view and experience the world differently than their peers do, and those differences ...

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa reversed certain behavioral symptoms in a mouse model of ...

As a mom who's waded through endless neurodivergent and autism theories, I've learned to approach new research with a healthy dose of skepticism. But this gut-brain connection autism research from USC ...

More than 80 years since autism’s first clinical description, researchers have built a wealth of information and scientific consensus around boys on the autism spectrum—but comparatively little is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have identified a distinct brain connectivity pattern in ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...

Here's a quick overview. Autism is believed to be a disorder of brain development. If so, it should be possible to diagnose it based on a brain scan. Unfortunately, it's not. You can't tell, from a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Autistic children have more gray matter in areas of the brain that control social processing and sight-based learning than children without the developmental disability, a small ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived - or "pass" - as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...