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Autism’s hidden habit
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Conventional wisdom holds that people with autism don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs, but new evidence suggests otherwise.
Conventional wisdom holds that people with autism don’t get hooked on alcohol or other drugs, but new evidence suggests otherwise.
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.
In a new type of therapy for autism, parents talk or type into their phone or computer, and their words emerge in the voice of an animated character.
Researchers have engineered two new rats with mutations in a family of genes that function at neuronal junctions, they reported today at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research in Atlanta.
Girls who show severe emotional or behavioral problems are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than those who do not.
Children with autism show an increase in restricted interests in their preteen years that is not seen in those with fragile X syndrome.
About one in four children with autism hit, scratch or otherwise hurt themselves, suggests an analysis of school and medical records for more than 8,000 children.
The books, shows and movies that most accurately portray autism are those that don’t dwell on the condition.
People with autism — and their family members — are susceptible to powerful placebo effects. Some researchers are using the problem to better understand this mystifying phenomenon.
Monkeys with multiple copies of the gene MeCP2 have irregular brain waves similar to those seen in some children with autism.