The Marcus Autism Center announced it will conduct the largest study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children ...

Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...

A study conducted in Taiwan found that autistic individuals tend to show differences in gut microbiota composition compared ...

The Marcus Foundation has awarded a $21.9 million grant to support the largest-ever study of behavior, brain, and biomarkers ...

While this condition has historically been thought to affect men and boys more often, new research shows otherwise.

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

Intraverbal behavior, a subset of verbal operants in which a verbal stimulus evokes a response with no point‐to‐point correspondence, is emerging as a critical area of investigation in autism spectrum ...

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Autism is diagnosed earlier in males, but diagnoses in females rise with age, narrowing the gender gap and leaving lifetime ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Large-scale Swedish data reveal a female “catch-up” effect in autism diagnoses, reshaping ...