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Mutations in the gene NLGN3, found in some people with autism, alter mice’s gut nervous system, two new studies suggest ...

Strong reactions to touch are remarkably widespread among people who have autism, despite the condition’s famed heterogeneity. “The touch thing ...

Most young autistic people do not and will not have psychosis or schizophrenia. As a class, psychotic disorders are relatively rare ...

That half of the family is on the spectrum and half not makes the Wiesenthals interesting to Molly Losh, director of ...

Here’s a primer on how genetic tests work, their value for autism and what to expect from the results. Is ...

Sequencing can identify mutations linked to autism even before a child’s birth – especially in cases where doctors suspect problems, ...

The North Dakota State Collegiate Future Farmers of America and NDSU Collegiate Farm Bureau hosted a food information forum to ...

Without timely intervention, intellectual disability in autistic children can worsen over time, contributing to poor life skills and challenging behavior, ...

Many individuals with autism have hearing problems. In fact, Leo Kanner included this trait in his original description of autism. The type ...

A much-touted behavioral therapy for autism, the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), may not be as effective as its creators ...

Behavioral conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) crop up in about one in three autistic people within 15 ...

Doctors can now order a blood test that its makers say may help flag autism, but experts say the test ...

An experimental compound that blocks two enzymes involved in gene expression improves social behavior in young mice, according to a ...

A new analysis of DNA from more than 20,000 people with autism identifies 12 regions in the genome that harbor ...

Activation of a mother’s immune system during pregnancy can increase the risk of autism in her child. New clues to ...

In France, some two-thirds of autistic children receive some kind of genetic test, paid for by the national health service ...

The part of the nervous system that regulates heart rate and breathing is involved in autism, a new study suggests ...

Almost as soon as James was born in April 2003, it was clear that he was not well. When he ...

Traits associated with autism and gender variance co-occur even among typical children, a new study suggests. The finding may ease ...

Children who have an older sibling with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at an increased risk of having autism, ...

The largest genetic analysis of postmortem brain tissue to date has yielded maps of when and where genes are turned ...

All I knew at first was that Jeremy’s mother wanted her son assessed for autism. The boy had been a ...

To understand another person’s point of view, children with autism need to actively suppress their own, a new study suggests ...

Some autistic children don’t show traits of the condition until age 5 or later, new research suggests. Others show a ...

In contemporary media, portrayals of autistic people are typically stereotyped and conventional: heterosexual, cisgender and, more often than not, naïve ...

TBR1 is among a select set of genes with strong ties to autism. The new findings explain that connection: Mutations in TBR1 may disrupt ...

[In 1924,] a gifted young doctor, Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva, saw [a 12-year-old] boy. Caring and attentive, she observed him with ...

Here, we explain why it is difficult to link autism to environmental factors, and what scientists know about how the ...