A new paper threatens to turn the world of autism neuroscience upside down. Its title is Anatomical Abnormalities in Autism?, and it claims that, well, there aren’t very many Published in Cerebral ...

May 31, 2011 — A postmortem analysis of autistic and normal brain tissue found common gene expression changes that differentiated autistic brain from healthy brain. The study is the first to ...

Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain activity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal ...

It's possible that "infants destined to develop autism are less likely to send out the correct biochemical signals for normal progression of labor," says Tara Wenger, a pediatric genetics fellow ...

Brain scans known as functional MRIs may someday help in diagnosing autism, according to new research. ''We know now it is possible to objectively differentiate the autistic brain from the typical ...

Researchers say they can predict whether an infant will go on to develop autism based on changes seen in MRI brain scans beginning during the first year of life.

Scientists hoping to uncover the origins of autism have grown a passel of miniature proto-brains in a lab, using reprogrammed skin cells to rewind the clock to the brain’s earliest days of ...

A brain link to autism Scientists find neurotransmitter that ties in with disorder's behavior Date: December 17, 2015 Source: Harvard University Summary: ...

What is pseudo-autism? It is a condition in which a child shows symptoms similar to autism, but is not actually autism.

A new study led by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers confirms that brain development in people with autism differs from those with typical neurodevelopment. According to the study published in PNAS, ...