autism
‘Genetic factors’ account for 81 percent of autism risk, suggests large multinational study
About 81 percent of autism risk comes from inherited genetic factors, according to an analysis of more than 2 million ...
Viewpoint: We need to recognize autism as a medical disability, not just a different way of being
Advocating for medical research, former president of Autism Speaks Liz Feld has stated that one third of people with autism ...
‘Life-threatening’ unregulated at-home treatments sparked by research linking autism to gut bacteria
A growing number are experimenting with specialized diets, probiotics, stool transplants and parasites, trying to game the gut to address ...
Autism-linked mutation may also play role in gastrointestinal problems
Mutations in the gene NLGN3, found in some people with autism, alter mice’s gut nervous system, two new studies suggest ...
Viewpoint: Fake autism treatments driven by fear and ignorance
NBC News recently published an exposé on the dangerous and all-too-common practice of orally and anally administering bleach-based treatments to ...
Startup wants to combine DNA, machine learning for earlier autism diagnosis
Probably Genetic, which recently graduated from the startup accelerator Y Combinator, wants to test the DNA of children with autism ...
Why popular image of autism as a male-dominated condition could hurt females
A commonly cited statistic is that boys have about a 1 in 52 chance of being placed on the autism ...
Infographic: Understanding autism’s origins and prevalence
More than 3.5 million Americans live with autism spectrum disorder — a developmental disability that has no blood test, no ...
Gut bacteria transfers could help relieve autism symptoms, research shows
What causes ASD has baffled psychiatrists and neurologists since the syndrome was first described, in the mid-20th century, by Hans Asperger and ...
How the study of ‘affective touch’ could offer a better understanding of autism and its causes
Strong reactions to touch are remarkably widespread among people who have autism, despite the condition’s famed heterogeneity. “The touch thing ...
Why we have to look for early signs of psychosis in people with autism
Most young autistic people do not and will not have psychosis or schizophrenia. As a class, psychotic disorders are relatively rare ...
AI discovers new autism-linked mutations in ‘junk’ DNA
Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of ...
It ‘no longer exists’: Why Asperger’s is now diagnosed as autism
The APA reports that “autism is the most severe developmental disability. Appearing within the first three years of life, autism ...
Understanding autism’s broad spectrum can ‘save’ family relationships
That half of the family is on the spectrum and half not makes the Wiesenthals interesting to Molly Losh, director of ...
Autism war rages: Is it a medical condition or ‘neurodiversity’?
[There is] a deep divide in the autism community: On one side are parents of autistic children with severe traits ...
Social skills in people with autism could be improved through 2 new drug treatments
New research seems to show encouraging progress in helping treat the complex neurodevelopmental disorder autism. Two unrelated clinical trials, involving ...
Autism diagnosis for children as young as 14 months could boost treatment potential
When screening for autism spectrum disorder, a new study suggests that children can be reliably diagnosed with autism at an ...
Name recognition could be key to an early diagnosis tool for autism
Every pediatrician knows that it’s important to diagnose autism when a child is as young as possible, because when younger ...
Gene mutation could explain why children with autism have trouble falling asleep
Up to 80 percent of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems. The source of these problems has ...
Why genetic testing for autism cannot offer definitive answers
Here’s a primer on how genetic tests work, their value for autism and what to expect from the results. Is ...
Prenatal sequencing for autism genes could be here soon—along with some ethical questions
Sequencing can identify mutations linked to autism even before a child’s birth – especially in cases where doctors suspect problems, ...
CDC says autism is on the rise—and why it may be worse than we think
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new report on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ... offers little good news. It ...
Virtual reality helps autistic children tackle phobias
One tool that is being embraced by therapists, counselors, teachers, parents and their children to help those with autism to better ...
Viewpoint: Do pesticides boost autism risk? New report says ‘possibly’ but correlations are ‘weak’ and ‘misleading’
Recently a study titled “Prenatal and infant exposure to ambient pesticides and autism spectrum disorder in children: population based case-control study” ...
Low intelligence in autistic children predicts ‘poor life skills and challenging behavior’
Without timely intervention, intellectual disability in autistic children can worsen over time, contributing to poor life skills and challenging behavior, ...
Viewpoint: Autism research is leaving girls behind
Evidence that clinicians are missing girls with autism has been building for years. Because autistic girls tend to exhibit different traits than ...
Hypersensitivity, hearing problems could lead to early autism diagnosis
Many individuals with autism have hearing problems. In fact, Leo Kanner included this trait in his original description of autism. The type ...
