Large study confirms high autism risk in ‘baby sibs’
Children who have an older sibling with autism are 14 times more likely to have the condition than are those without a family history of the condition.
Children who have an older sibling with autism are 14 times more likely to have the condition than are those without a family history of the condition.
The first large population-based analysis of the prevalence of regression in autism reveals that it occurs in 20 percent of children with autism.
A study of more than 85,000 people with epilepsy and their immediate relatives suggests that epilepsy and autism share biological roots.
Rare antibodies associated with autism are unusually common among women who developed diabetes while pregnant with a child who has autism.
Jill Escher is on a mission to spur research into how chemicals in the environment may influence risk for autism.
A single species of bacteria reverses autism-like features in mice exposed to a high-fat diet in utero — but researchers question the findings’ relevance to people.
Autism is four times more prevalent among extremely premature babies than in the general population.
Pregnant women with elevated levels of certain immune molecules are at increased risk of having a child with both autism and intellectual disability.
High levels of an inflammatory protein in pregnant women may lower the risk of autism in their children.
The mutations that men accumulate in their sperm as they age don’t account for most of their increased risk of having a child with autism.