Differences in behavior among people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are closely related to differences in neuroanatomy – the shape of a brain – a team of Boston College neuroscientists report ...

Efforts to detect autism spectrum disorder before the age of two mostly rely on parental reports, as opposed to infant behavior. Measuring infant behavior, however, directly provides vital information ...

Autism is an inherently complex condition, but new research breaks it down into four distinct categories, each defined by a ...

For many years, autism has been identified as a spectrum with differing levels of ability. New research suggests that the age ...

A new research from the University of Southern California (USC) has made a crucial new discovery regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), highlighting the vital, yet often unexamined, connection ...

A new study found that the drug lamotrigine, used to treat epilepsy and stabilize mood in people with bipolar disorder, worked to stop behaviors like hyperactivity that are linked to autism in mice, ...

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About 50% of all mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had elevated levels of depressive symptoms over 18 months, while rates were much lower (6% to 13.6%) for mothers with ...

Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...