New research shows that sodium is a switch for a neurotransmitter receptor called the kainite receptor. The receptor is necessary for good brain function and “implicated” in diseases like epilepsy and also in neuropathic pain....
read moreNew research says that attention impairments are not a key component of autism. And although children with autism often have attention disorders, it’s not the case in all autistic children. Two attention abilities specifically—moving attention fluidly and orienting to...
read moreCompared to children with autism, children with Asperger’s have different brain patterns (as seen on EEGs), making some wonder if they should be classified separately in the DSM-5, rather than lumped together....
read moreResearch out of Austria suggests that dyscalculia may sometimes be due to biology; in other words, they are born with a deficit that causes them to have an “imprecise internal representation of numbers.”...
read moreChildren with autism who display strong math abilities have different – not deficient – brain patterns when doing calculations. The Stanford researchers want people to start thinking about autistic brains in a new light: special, not broken....
read moreNew research says there is no such thing as “right-brained” and “left-brained” personality traits. Although it’s true that certain functions come from one side of the brain or the other (language is in the left, attention on the right,...
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