Despite decades of research, the structural and functional brain abnormalities in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remain unclear. Now, researchers from Japan have used advanced ...

The character traits that might mean you are autistic – and how to get a diagnosis - More adults than ever seeking truths ...

A computer algorithm can identify the brains of autism patients with moderate accuracy based on scans taken at six months and one year ... who leads the eight-center Infant Brain Imaging Study Network ...

Brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit marked differences in the microstructure of white matter and functional ...

First, the researchers established what typical brain connectivity development looks like in boys without autism. They used brain scans from 321 boys without autism to create a model of how ...

Here is what you need to know. Sign up here. There are no objective tools for diagnosing autism such as blood tests or brain scans. Instead, diagnoses are made based on observations and interviews.

The Second Roche–Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium on Autism and other developmental brain disorders was a resounding success. Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that we ...

Severe self-injurious behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a significant risk of permanent physical injury.

A small pilot study has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical treatment that delivers electrical signals to ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD ... Despite ongoing research, the structural and functional brain differences between children with ASD and typically developing (TD) children remain poorly understood.