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

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 ...

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in ...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have used a novel method for analyzing brain-scan data to distinguish children with autism from ...

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

A few days ago Carnegie Mellon University imaging expert Marcel Just published a very interesting study with the heady title, Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions: ...

, a major line of research about autism might be seriously flawed: One of the most popular and widely accepted theories on the cause of autism spectrum disorders attributes the condition to disrupted ...

For many autistic children, everyday sensations such as the feel of scratchy fabric or a loud car alarm can be intensely distressing. Known as sensory over-responsivity, this common symptom can affect ...

In the picture Alessandro Gozzi, PhD, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CNCS) at the IIT in Rovereto (Italy) who coordinated the study with Adriana Di Martino, MD, ...

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 ...

Currently, there is no way to diagnose children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) until behavioral traits begin to show at around 24 months of age. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...