It’s no easy feat to whittle down the list of the most influential autism papers to a mere 10. So please consider this but a taste of the burgeoning field, presented in chronological order and based on suggestions from many researchers.
A significant proportion of the rise in autism prevalence in Denmark stems from changes in diagnostic practice, suggests a study published 3 November in JAMA Pediatrics.
Monkeys exposed in utero to their mother’s immune response to a mock infection show inflammation in their brains four years later. Researchers presented the unpublished work today at the 2014 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Standard screening tools translated into Hindi and Bengali reliably distinguish Indian children with autism from their unaffected peers.
Children born too soon or too long after their siblings have an increased risk of autism, a new study reports.
Having an infection during pregnancy significantly raises the risk of having a child with autism, finds the largest epidemiological study to date to examine the link.
It’s been 15 years since researchers published an epidemiological study with results so striking they sparked worldwide changes in food fortification. Geneticist Joseph Cubells is revisiting the results to determine whether folate decreases autism risk.
Many Latino parents in the U.S. know little about autism, and some have never heard of the disorder before, finds a small study. They also tend to normalize autism symptoms or view them as a sign of family problems.
The genetic and environmental factors that underlie difficulties with language differ from those that influence other autism traits, according to a new study of more than 3,000 twin pairs. The study, published 2 August in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, suggests that difficulty with language is not a core symptom of autism.
New estimates on the role of common mutations in autism raise questions about how to quantify and parse genetic risk. Three experts say both common and rare variants are worth pursuing.