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

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 ...

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

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...

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.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference associated with specific experiences and characteristics. For decades, autism research has focused on behavioural, cognitive, social and communication ...

Researchers analyzed data from Denmark covering 1,702 children diagnosed with autism and born between 1973 and 2012. Those ...

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 ...

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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 ...