Employment may improve autism symptoms
Adults with ASD who work in situations with inclusiveness and interaction tend to have measurable improvements in behavior and daily living skills....
read moreAutism risk increased with hospital-diagnosed maternal infections...
A Kaiser Permanente study has found that pregnant women who are diagnosed with a bacterial infection in a hospital have a greater risk of giving birth to a child who develops ASD....
read moreSense of sound and sight separated in children with autism
A new study from Vanderbilt indicates that children with ASD have difficulty integrating sound and sight, which may make it harder to develop social and communication skills....
read moreStudy says antidepressants don’t increase risk of autism...
A Danish study looked at a mother’s use of SSRIs during pregnancy and her child’s risk of having autism and found no correlation. This was a large study. Some 600,000 children were followed to track results....
read moreGenes express differently in the male and female brain – including autism...
A study of 12 regions of post-mortem brains showed that genes express differently in men and women. The differences involved 2.5 percent of all the genes expressed in the brain. One gene in particular, NRXN3, which is linked to...
read moreNon-verbal learning disability looks different than autism in brain...
Researchers have discovered evidence that the brains of children with NVLD actually develop differently than other children, even those with HFA....
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