People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in ...

A long‑overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and ...

A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

A new autism therapy may be on the way — and it’s got everyone talking. Researchers in China have developed a brain stimulation technique that’s showing early promise in improving social communication ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system - ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers report that a five‑day course of magnetic brain stimulation slightly boosted social communication in ...