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

My 23-year-old son Gus, who is autistic, is a study in contradictions. He can’t put together a sandwich and yet plays a song on the piano after hearing it once. He travels all over New York City on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a condition that affects the ability to interact and communicate. It may have symptoms that are similar to those seen in some brain injuries. Autism spectrum disorder ...

As the mother of an autistic son, Rosann Richards knows there are few children’s books featuring characters on the spectrum. “Special needs children are twenty percent of the population but only two ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A program of the Simons Foundation since 2014, Autism BrainNet today reported that over the past two-year period, the organization has seen a significant increase in brain ...