Yen for routine seeds anxiety in autistic children
Interventions that moderate a need for ‘sameness’ may prevent anxiety traits.
Autism’s core symptoms accompany a constellation of subtle signs that scientists are just beginning to unmask.
Interventions that moderate a need for ‘sameness’ may prevent anxiety traits.
Shifts in diagnostic criteria have only added to the condition’s bedeviling heterogeneity, an analysis of smiling, sitting, walking and other early milestones in more than 17,000 autistic children reveals.
This month, we pore over null results from a study of the accuracy of emotion recognition skills in autistic people, clinical trials of a vasopressin drug called balovaptan, and an analysis of ‘systemizing’ abilities in autistic children.
A handful of scientists are committed to advancing research on the autism-related genetic conditions their own children have.
Swiss biotech Stalicla hopes to bring precision medicine to autism. Experts praise efforts to identify autism subgroups, but evidence to support the company’s claims has yet to be seen.
Therapies that target the circuit could boost social activity, new findings suggest.
Even temporary bouts of too little non-REM sleep can lead to long-term changes in how the animals respond to certain social situations, new research suggests.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the first repository of vocalizations from minimally verbal autistic people. Those with few or no spoken words still produce a range of phonemes, or units of sound, that may serve as developmental markers or intervention targets.
The findings contradict a previous study, whose design may have been biased to find an effect.
The young researcher from Uruguay uses her expertise in genetics — and discipline as a former athlete — to untangle sleep’s role in neurodevelopmental conditions, one experiment at a time.