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Brain’s center of automatic body functions has autism links
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The brainstem controls such disparate functions as breathing, sensation and sleep — all of which can be altered in autism.
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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
News / Toolbox
New measures of social skills tap what monkeys see, do
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A pair of tools that gauge social abilities in rhesus macaques may help researchers study autism-like behaviors in monkeys.
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News
Motor difficulties in autism, explained
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Most people with autism have motor difficulties, ranging from an atypical gait to problems with handwriting, but researchers still have much to learn about their causes and consequences.
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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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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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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.