This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.

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 ...

Children with autism have larger brains and more neurons for their age than is normal, results of a small preliminary study indicate. Postmortem examinations from seven boys with autism revealed that ...

A multi-university research team co-led by University of Virginia engineering professor Gustavo K. Rohde has developed a system that can spot genetic markers of autism in brain images with 89 to 95% ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

A little-known hormone that's key for socialization could have links to autism, a study suggests. Social difficulties like making friends and interpreting conversational cues are some of the most tell ...

What will likely happen is that we will eventually have four types of people: Those who aren’t sick, those who are sick and ...

This post was co-authored by Barbara D’Entremont, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in ...

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