Pioneering researchers shared how patient-derived brain organoids are being used to study autism. The models have uncovered ...

A new study utilizes 128-sensor EEG to prove that altered aperiodic neural noise predicts autism communication challenges.

A new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system—ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing ...

"Autism is not a processing error. It's a different operating system." –Sarah Hendrickx According to the National Institute of Mental Health, autism is a ...

Two Miami researchers have learned how to “rescue” malfunctioning brain cells linked to autism spectrum disorder by restoring the electrical signals that allow neurons to communicate. Their ...

The mirror neuron system (MNS) constitutes a network of frontal and parietal brain regions engaged during both the execution and observation of actions. In typical development, this system underpins ...

Autism is a complex condition that can affect different people in very different ways. While researchers have learned a lot about the condition in recent decades, classifying distinct subtypes of ...

Some autistic people seem to have unusually strong connections between different regions of their brain, while others have weakened links. These two connectivity patterns appear to be associated with ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon have for the first time managed to identify with an imaging technique whether nervous impulses in the brain of rats are flowing in a "bottom-up" ...