Some children who dramatically lose a range of abilities after age 2 may have a condition called childhood disintegrative disorder.

Links between sensory and motor brain networks may be unusually weak in individuals with autism.

The brains of rats exposed in utero to the seizure drug valproate show a significant increase in brain size around the time of birth.

Genetic tests for people with autism are far from routine and don’t always yield results, but the information they offer can change lives.

Traits associated with autism and gender variance may co-occur even among typical children — a finding that may ease some of the skepticism about the overlap.

Three distinct categories of traits best characterize autism, according to a study of more than 6,000 children.

Children who contract serious infections may have an increased likelihood of being diagnosed with autism.

Children who have an older sibling with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are at an increased risk of having autism. The reverse is also true.

This article is also available in anglais. Il y a quelques années la mère d’un jeune autiste m’a téléphoné. Elle venait d’apprendre que son fils, qui était dans la vingtaine, avait une délétion de SHANK3, l’un des gènes qui, d’après les découvertes de mon équipe, subit une mutation chez certaines personnes autistes. Cette nouvelle m’a […]

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