People with autism spectrum disorder can be classified into four distinct subtypes based on their brain activity and behavior, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The study ...

New research has demonstrated significant sex disparities when it comes to autism diagnosis. Despite females being just as ...

For my children, their autism diagnosis has been a key to resources, ensuring they had access to accommodations and, most important for my oldest son, that insurance paid for his behavior therapy. The ...

Hyperactivity, repetitive behavior, and language deficits all appeared in the mice, highlighting an unexpected role the cerebellum seems to play in autism. More than 70 genes have been linked to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may have seen videos on social media where people detail the signs that made them realize they’re autistic. Viewers are ...

Is It Time To Move Away From ABA Therapy To Treat Autism? Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a type of therapy that can be used to treat a variety of different behaviors, but its most common ...

Study Identifies a Potential Connection to Autism Development A recent study published in The Journal of Immunology ha ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain ...

In a recent Nature study, researchers discovered that Crym-expressing astrocytes in the central striatum play a key role in the manifestation of repetitive behaviors associated with many ...