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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain “pruning” process during development, according to a new study.

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.

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The extra synapses in the brains of autistic children are due to a slowdown in the normal brain “pruning” process during development, the researchers believe.

In autism, the brain’s response to speech speaks volumes. By Melissa Healy Staff Writer . April 9, 2015 5 PM PT . ... will gain near-normal language and social skills. ...