In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has prompted a new and perplexing question: how can so many different genes ...

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Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have for the first time managed to identify with an imaging technique ...

Individuals who carry common genetic variants associated with autism tend to have lower density in the brain’s microscopic ...

Shows promise for social communication difficulties Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is among the leading causes of health ...

If you are neurodivergent, or parenting a neurodivergent child, it can often feel like the world doesn’t take you seriously.

Researchers have uncovered a possible link between sterol biosynthesis inhibiting medications taken during pregnancy and an ...

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The symptoms of autism may not be obvious until a child is a toddler, but the disorder itself appears to begin well before birth. Brain tissue taken from children who died and also happened to have ...