From the University of California-Davis Health System: Scientists affiliated with the UC Davis MIND Institute have discovered how a defective gene causes brain changes that lead to the atypical social… Read more »
From the Research Council of Norway press release via ScienceDaily: Ingesting the hormone oxytocin via nasal spray improves the ability to read people’s facial expressions. These findings hold great promise… Read more »
From the UC Santa Barbara press release: The junior high and high school years are emotionally challenging even under the best of circumstances, but for adolescents with autism spectrum disorders… Read more »
From the UNC Health Care press release via ScienceDaily: A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers found that 31 percent of children identified as at… Read more »
From the California Institute of Technology press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pioneered the study of the link between irregularities in the immune system… Read more »
From the Emory University press release: Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified five rare mutations in a single gene that appear to increase the chances that a… Read more »
From the University of Kansas, Life Span Institute press release via Newswise: University of Kansas researchers have found larger resting pupil size and lower levels of a salivary enzyme associated… Read more »
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: This paper reports a stable improvement in social skills in a 15-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (AS), after… Read more »
From the Harvard Medical School press release by Shraddha Chakradhar via ScienceDaily: Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They… Read more »
From the University of North Carolina press release via MedicalXpress: New research led by a medical geneticist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine points to an increased… Read more »
