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

By analyzing over 213,000 developing human brain cells, researchers show that many autism risk genes act through the ECM.

A new study proposes that autism arises when genetic vulnerability, an early environmental trigger, and prolonged activation of the cellular stress response align during critical developmental windows ...

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 ...

The Body’s Energy System May Hold The Key To Understanding Condition, Study Shows In A Nutshell What they found: Scientists ...

As a mom who's waded through endless neurodivergent and autism theories, I've learned to approach new research with a healthy dose of skepticism. But this gut-brain connection autism research from USC ...

Gut microbiome differences may shape autism traits, with beneficial bacteria linked to better gut health, lower inflammation, ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American To many, Temple Grandin is the public face of ...

F rom the outside, autism can be difficult to understand. The unique sensory world of an autistic person can mean that a ...

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ...