A recent study found that the degree to which a person possesses autistic traits is linked to how their brain processes ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, have traditionally been viewed as distinct ...

UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language abilities. This discovery could improve predictions of their language ...

A study published in NeuroMarkers showed that a nanosensor can measure nitric oxide (NO) from patient-derived stem cells to ...

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 ...

A large–scale international study has identified two contrasting patterns of communication between brain regions in some ...

A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system - ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing ...

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The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure in the limbic system of our brain, known for its key function in the cascade of events associated with detecting threat. When the thalamus communicates ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Autistic children have more gray matter in areas of the brain that control social processing and sight-based learning than children without the developmental disability, a small ...