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

Individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those with autism spectrum disorder both experience atypical ...

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute has recruited Sara Jane Webb as director of the Rutgers Center for Autism Research, Education and Services (RUCARES). Webb — a professor of psychiatry and behavioral ...

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

Stanford researchers found that two cerebellar folds, Crus I and Crus II, are thinner in autistic children and that their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The review, which focuses on younger age groups, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis or mis-diagnosis.