Mat with pressure sensors detects characteristic gait in dup15q syndrome
People with dup15q syndrome tend to walk slowly, have a wide stance and take short steps.
People with dup15q syndrome tend to walk slowly, have a wide stance and take short steps.
Children with autism are more likely than their neurotypical peers to have any of a host of medical conditions.
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?
Children missing a stretch of DNA on chromosome 16 show worsening motor and social skills in the first eight years of life; those with an extra copy of the region do not show this decline.
Infant siblings of children with autism who also have the condition show motor problems into their second year.
A brain circuit that controls movement is altered in people with autism, a postmortem brain study suggests.
Removing the Rett syndrome gene, MeCP2, from distinct cells and brain regions reveals hidden features of the condition.
Tennis is a social game, requiring players to predict and respond to their opponent’s behavior. That may help some children with autism.
Some infants who are later diagnosed with autism have too much fluid between the brain and skull.
Children whose parents have a condition such as autism tend to have severe restricted interests and repetitive behaviors, even if they don’t have a diagnosis themselves.