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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.
Autism’s core symptoms accompany a constellation of subtle signs that scientists are just beginning to unmask.
The brainstem controls such disparate functions as breathing, sensation and sleep — all of which can be altered in autism.
A pair of tools that gauge social abilities in rhesus macaques may help researchers study autism-like behaviors in monkeys.
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.
Hearing difficulties and autism often overlap, exacerbating autism traits and complicating diagnoses.
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.
Two new analyses help to explain why mutations to the chromosomal region 16p11.2 can lead to autism, intellectual disability or language difficulties.
Babies with telltale patterns of electrical activity in the brain have pronounced autism traits as toddlers.
Grouping autistic people based on their social abilities may reveal subtypes of the condition.
The autism gene SHANK3 is crucial for the development and function of muscles and the motor neurons that control them.
Doctors and scientists should consider sleep problems an integral part of autism and begin to study them in more rigorous ways.