Of the hundreds of presentations at IMFAR earlier this month, one got widely picked up: a study of children who ‘recover’ from autism.

A flaw in brain imaging analysis is more widespread than anyone realized: When choosing from the enormous amounts of data generated from an fMRI experiment, scientists often ‘double dip,’ or use the same subset for setting up a hypothesis and for confirming it.

A few talks today at IMFAR suggest that procedural memory — which we use for everything from riding a bike to conjugating regular verbs — is impaired in people with autism.

Do children with autism have unusually large brains?

People with autism have trouble recognizing facial expressions and judging the emotional tone of spoken words — or at least, that’s what many researchers say.

You’ve probably noticed that newsstands everywhere are covering a huge breakthrough in autism: the discovery of the first common genetic risk variants for autism.

Most kids with autism have trouble sleeping — whether that’s difficulty falling asleep, or waking up many times during the night.

Civil rights groups in Minnesota and Texas are fighting their state governments in some of the first legal battles over newborn blood screening.

The word schizophrenia refers to the apparent separation of memory, thinking and perceptual abilities that trigger a disjointed personality in those with the disorder. But this split may also grant those individuals unusual abilities.

With World Autism Awareness Day just behind us, it seems fitting to me to ask: Is autism more common among children of some ethnicities than in others?