Brain scans may forecast autism in high-risk infants
Patterns of brain activity in 6-month-old babies accurately predict which children will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.
Patterns of brain activity in 6-month-old babies accurately predict which children will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.
Children with autism are often clumsy, physically awkward or uncoordinated. This understudied and nearly ubiquitous feature has researchers contemplating a new idea: Could motor problems be one source of autism’s social difficulties?
Bundles of nerve fibers that bridge brain areas develop rapidly during the first six months of life. Fibers that connect language regions mature more slowly than those linking motor regions.
Mouse models of autism share a key structural anomaly: an unusually small cerebellum, a region that coordinates movement.
The strength and synchrony of brain waves appear to evolve differently in children with autism than in their neurotypical peers.
A curved glass replacement for the top of a mouse's skull lets researchers spy on the activity of more than 1 million neurons.
A newly developed magnetic coil gives researchers a stable, precise way of probing the function of neural circuits.
Despite the completion of hundreds of imaging studies in people with autism, researchers have yet to find features that distinguish people with the condition.
Patterns of activity in certain brain regions may predict how well a child with autism will respond to a behavioral therapy.
A new method allows researchers to watch thousands of neurons firing in concert in the brains of living mice.