A large study has found that pregnant women who followed a healthy diet had 22% lower odds of having children with autism and fewer social communication difficulties in their children, highlighting a potential link between prenatal diet and autism risk.
Adults with autism prefer to follow rather than lead in social imitation tasks, accompanied by distinct brain synchrony patterns, indicating differences in how their brains connect with others during social interactions.
A Swedish study found that autism heritability is significantly higher in boys than in girls, offering new insights into the sex differences in autism risk.
A recent study found that regular, moderate exercise improved brain function and cognitive flexibility in rats with autism-like symptoms, suggesting that exercise may benefit individuals with autism by enhancing brain health at a molecular level.
Autistic children born in underserved neighborhoods are more likely to exhibit heightened ADHD symptoms during mid-childhood and adolescence, with the social and economic conditions of the neighborhood being a significant predictor.
Autism quiz: Discover if you have autistic traits with the quick RAADS-14 test.
Increased dosage of the Ube3a gene causes sex-specific differences in brain connectivity and behavior in mice, potentially explaining why autism is more prevalent in males.
A recent study found that gamers with higher levels of autistic traits are more vulnerable to excessive gaming and problematic gambling, but they spend less on in-game "loot boxes."
A new study reveals that autistic children exhibit unique attentional patterns in which they often return their gaze to familiar stimuli, potentially impacting their sensory processing and cognitive development.
A meta-analysis of 243 fMRI studies revealed that ADHD and autism have distinct brain activity patterns, with unique neural activations for each disorder outweighing their similarities.
The severity of autism symptoms is linked to brain overgrowth during early embryonic development, with larger brain cortical organoids correlating with more severe social and cognitive challenges in children with autism.
Children with autism and specific learning disorders have more difficulty recognizing facial emotions compared to non-diagnosed children, with higher social anxiety correlating with better emotion recognition in autism but worse recognition in learning disorders.
Mice with autism-like traits are highly susceptible to PTSD from even mild stress, which exacerbates core autistic behaviors, and identified specific brain circuit alterations responsible for this heightened sensitivity.
New research provides evidence that specific Neanderthal genetic variants contribute to autism susceptibility, highlighting an ancient genetic link between our prehistoric relatives and modern neurodevelopmental conditions.
Children with pronounced autistic traits often have lower creativity, according to new research, except those with high attention to detail, who exhibited better creativity.