From the Washington University School of Medicine press release: A defective gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain, according to a study from Washington University School of…
From the Uni Research press release: Relational factors in music therapy can contribute to a positive outcome of therapy for children with autism. It might not surprise that good relationships create good outcomes, as meaningful…
From the University of Iowa Health Care press release: Researchers aiming to understand why autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more common in boys have discovered differences in a brain signaling pathway involved in reward learning and…
From the University of Sydney press release: The retrospective cohort study of 220 Australian children, conducted between 2011-2014, indicates that an “immune-mediated subtype” of autism driven by the body’s inflammatory and immunological systems may be…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: Having one child with autism is a well-known risk factor for having another one with the same disorder, but whether and how a sibling’s gender influences this risk has…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release: New research from the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) identifies a potential biomarker that predicts atypical development in 1- to 2-month-old infants…
From the Osaka University press release: Osaka University researchers show in a multi-institute collaboration that a single amino acid substitution in the protein CX3CR1 may act as predictor for schizophrenia and autism. Huntington’s disease, cystic fibrosis,…
From the McGill University press release: The origins of autism remain mysterious. What areas of the brain are involved, and when do the first signs appear? New findings published in Biological Psychiatry brings us closer to understanding the…
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia press release: Mitochondria, the tiny structures inside our cells that generate energy, may play a key role in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A provocative new study by Children’s Hospital of…
From the University of Haifa press release: People with strong signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show neural signs of anxiety when they see social touch and report unpleasant feelings about social touch by comparison…