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Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Autism

March 28, 2019

Virtual reality games could help individuals with certain neurological conditions shift their perceptions of time

Is Autism Truly a Spectrum? New Research Suggests Classification More Complex

February 11, 2019

The study findings may have vast implications with the way professionals classify autism

Autism Behaviors Show Unique Brain Network Fingerprints in Infants

November 14, 2018

The findings help pinpoint brain regions involved in particular aspects of ASD

Unique Patterns of Neural Communications Found in Brains of Children with Autism

October 26, 2018

MRI scans of school-age children's brains showed unique patterns of neural communication involving the amygdala

Largest Autism Sequencing Study to Date Yields 102 Genes Associated with ASD

October 18, 2018

The study reports significant progress toward teasing apart the genes associated with ASD from those associated with int...

New Biomarker Panel Could Accelerate Autism Diagnoses

September 6, 2018

About 17 percent of kids with autism identified with metabolic blood test

Potential Biomarker for Autism

August 15, 2018

Non-invasive brain imaging could detect autism symptoms as early as infancy

Autism Risk Determined by Health of Mother's Gut

July 19, 2018

Could preventing autism be as simple as changing expectant mothers' diet?

Risk of Autism Increased in Children of Mothers with Diabetes

June 26, 2018

The risk of autism spectrum disorder was increased in children of mothers with the three main types of diabetes that complica...

How Our Ancestors with Autistic Traits Led a Revolution in Ice Age Art

May 15, 2018

Around 30,000 years ago realistic art suddenly flourished in Europe

Potential New Autism Drug Shows Promise in Mice

November 15, 2017

NitroSynapsin is intended to restore an electrical signaling imbalance in the brain found in virtually all forms of autism sp...

Genetic Body/Brain Connection Identified in Genomic Region Linked to Autism

October 10, 2017

About 1 in 2000, or around 4 million people worldwide, have deletions in this region, and these deletions are associated with...

Folic Acid May Mitigate Autism Risk from Pesticides

September 11, 2017

In the study, children whose mothers took 800 or more micrograms of folic acid (the amount in most prenatal vitamins) had a s...

MRI Reveals Striking Brain Differences in People with Genetic Autism

August 9, 2017

Many people with autism have abnormalities at a specific site on the 16th chromosome known as 16p11.2

Predicting Autism: Study Links Infant Brain Connections to Diagnoses at Age 2

June 9, 2017

In two previous studies, University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues linked infant brain anatomy differences to a...

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