A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study reveals rapid evolution of common brain neurons may explain autism’s high prevalence in humans (CREDIT: Shutterstock) What ...

New research shows autism and ADHD may share brain and gene patterns, changing how we understand both conditions.

Does prenatal medication cause autism? A new study links sterol-inhibiting drugs (SBIMs) to higher ASD rates, identifying a 1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autism has long been treated almost exclusively as a childhood condition, with little attention paid to how it evolves with age.

Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it’s the severity of autism-like traits that seems to shape how the brain ...

This is the first study to show that it is possible to use brain biomarkers to identify which infants in a high-risk pool — that is, those having an older sibling with autism — will be diagnosed with ...

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The researchers focused on a class of medications called sterol biosynthesis-inhibiting medications, or SBIMs, which are ...

Source: Released under the GFDL by en:User:TheBrain on 20 May 2003 For my first few posts on Psychology Today, I wanted to give an overview of the most popular theories about the brain basis of autism ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

The idea that two conditions at opposite ends of life might be biologically linked is beginning to upend long-standing assumptions in brain science, blurring a divide that has shaped the field for ...