Voices of Autism

[...] The number of newly diagnosed cases of autism has levelled off in the UK after a five-fold surge during the 1990s, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. The findings [...]

[...] improving sleep and aspects of daytime behavior and family functioning in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), according to a Vanderbilt study published in the Journal of Autism and [...]

[...] duration is shorter and they are more prone to frequent waking at night Children with autistic spectrum disorders have poorer sleep quality than their peers right up to their teens, reveals research [...]

Findings in bacteria, yeast, mice show how flawed transport gene contributes to the condition Caption: The structure of the protein NHE9 is one piece [...]

Joint research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychology and Auburn University indicates that brain scans show signs of [...]

[...] Activating a mother’s immune system during her pregnancy disrupts the development of neural cells in the brain of her offspring and damages the cells’ [...]

[...] NHE9 is one piece of the puzzle of what causes autism. Credit: Kalyan Kondapalli and Rajini Rao Researchers say it’s … Continue reading → [...]

[...] University indicates that brain scans show signs of autism that could eventually support behavior-based diagnosis of autism and effective early intervention therapies. The findings appear online today [...]

The brains of children with autism show more connections than the brains of typically developing children do. What’s more, the brains of individuals [...]