Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

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

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 ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

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 ...

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

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure in the limbic system of our brain, known for its key function in the cascade of events associated with detecting threat. When the thalamus communicates ...

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

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American To many, Temple Grandin is the public face of ...

Myths about autism abound. Here, experts explain what’s fact and what’s fiction when it comes to the condition. Plus, what it means to be neurodivergent in this way. Myth 1: Autism is a mental ...

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 ...