How scientists secure the data driving autism research
Protecting the privacy of autistic people and their families faces new challenges in the era of big data.
Protecting the privacy of autistic people and their families faces new challenges in the era of big data.
Babies with telltale patterns of electrical activity in the brain have pronounced autism traits as toddlers.
Doctors and scientists should consider sleep problems an integral part of autism and begin to study them in more rigorous ways.
Children with autism are more likely than typical children to have had problems falling asleep as infants, and to have shown brain overgrowth.
In younger siblings of children with autism, insecure attachments to their caregivers increases the odds of being diagnosed with autism.
Children who have autistic older siblings have bigger neural responses than controls do in the brain networks that process faces.
Autistic infants as young as 6 months display subtle signs of the condition, according to a study of visual attention.
Autistic people have long maintained that repetitive behaviors are beneficial. Emerging evidence in support of this idea is shaping new therapies.
The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union would endanger continent-wide collaborations.
As prenatal testing improves, it presents a host of thorny issues — from what to test and how to interpret the results, to what to do about them.