Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

New research links the disorder to abnormal brain development. Nov. 8, 2011— -- A new, small study provides a tantalizing clue to the causes of autism, suggesting that children with the disorder ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. When we try to learn something new, our curiosity ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived — or “pass” — as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

Autism likely has deep genetic roots, but the latest research provides hope that some learning techniques can lessen symptoms of the developmental disorder. In children with the mildest cases of ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...

Some autistic teens often adopt behaviors to mask their diagnosis in social settings helping them be perceived - or "pass" - as non-autistic. For the first time, researchers are able to observe brain ...

Summer Stelter remembers being in “a rough place” in 2022. Diagnosed years earlier with borderline personality disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder, she was told throughout childhood ...