Features / Deep Dive
Confusion at the crossroads of autism and hearing loss
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Hearing difficulties and autism often overlap, exacerbating autism traits and complicating diagnoses.
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Signs & Symptoms
Autism’s core symptoms accompany a constellation of subtle signs that scientists are just beginning to unmask.
August 2020
Opinion
Autism and eating disorders may have an emotional connection
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates of any kinds of mental illness. They don’t discriminate, affecting people of all ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, ages and backgrounds.
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News
Studies unravel diversity of traits tied to chromosome 16 mutations
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Two new analyses help to explain why mutations to the chromosomal region 16p11.2 can lead to autism, intellectual disability or language difficulties.
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July 2020
News
Infants’ brain waves may foretell autism traits
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Babies with telltale patterns of electrical activity in the brain have pronounced autism traits as toddlers.
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Opinion / Viewpoint
In search of ‘social’ subtypes of autism
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Grouping autistic people based on their social abilities may reveal subtypes of the condition.
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News
Some motor problems in autism may arise from cells outside brain
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The autism gene SHANK3 is crucial for the development and function of muscles and the motor neurons that control them.
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Opinion / Viewpoint
Losing sleep: How researchers miss a key contributor to autism
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Doctors and scientists should consider sleep problems an integral part of autism and begin to study them in more rigorous ways.
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Multimedia / Webinars
Webinar: Michelle Failla and David Moore on pain in autism
On 29 July, Michelle Failla and David Moore gave a webinar on pain in autism, which focused on sensations, emotions and behaviors.
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News
Eye ‘jumps’ in autistic people may be especially fleeting
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Autistic people tend to have trouble shifting their gaze to take in all the details of a scene.
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June 2020
News
Autism traits in children more variable than previously thought
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Nearly half of autistic children may show substantial changes in the severity of their autism traits from ages 3 to 6, according to a new study.