People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and ...

Once the regimen was complete, the researchers used a tool called the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-2) to measure changes ...

Shared traits connect: People with similar autistic trait levels reported stronger mutual attraction during group discussions, especially when their opinions aligned. Different brain pathways: ...

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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 ...

A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system - ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing ...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental difference associated with specific experiences and characteristics. For decades, autism research has focused on behavioural, cognitive, social and communication ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Autistic children have more gray matter in areas of the brain that control social processing and sight-based learning than children without the developmental disability, a small ...

Researchers have uncovered a possible link between sterol biosynthesis inhibiting medications taken during pregnancy and an ...

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 ...

While some people feel moments of loneliness or social anxiety from time to time, investigative reporter Christina Buttons ...