Early activity of brain’s emotion hub may yield clues to autism
The brain’s emotion center, the amygdala, undergoes dramatic changes during the first year of life; these shifts may hold hints about its role in autism.
The brain’s emotion center, the amygdala, undergoes dramatic changes during the first year of life; these shifts may hold hints about its role in autism.
An electrical brain implant all but erased the obsessions that had consumed Becky Audette, years after her autism diagnosis. Could similar implants help other people with severe autism?
A technique called intracranial electroencephalography can reveal brain functions with great sensitivity and may ultimately unearth the underpinnings of autism.
A greater proportion of 3-year-old girls than boys with autism have psychiatric features such as anxiety and moodiness.
The amygdala, a brain region that governs emotions, may be enlarged and overly connected in children with autism, but it shrinks as the children grow up.
Women describe relief at finally learning they have autism, a man with epilepsy narrates during stimulation of his brain, and the brain’s immune cells are caught on film nibbling at neuronal connections.
Activists are arrested while protesting the use of electroshock devices, a Facebook group claims cabbage slurry can prevent autism, and a movie features romance — and actors — on the spectrum.
A new inventory of proteins reveals their levels in seven brain regions from infancy through adulthood.
Mice missing any of 11 genes involved in the immune response show differences in brain anatomy that track with anxiety.
New initiatives aim to increase brain donations for autism research and maximize what scientists can learn from these precious specimens.