Why do some children with autism communicate more easily than others, even when they hear the same words? Researchers from ...

Summary: Researchers demonstrated that the brains of teenagers with autism handle the sounds of unfamiliar voices in a ...

Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are differently wired. Now, new evidence shows they are right. Researchers have found atypical numbers of brain cells in two key areas of ...

Highly influential experts take different approaches to challenging the definitions of autism they themselves espoused, ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that autism may include at least two biologically distinct subtypes, each marked by a different pattern of brain communication. By combining brain scans from nearly ...

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition, is often associated with difficulties in social communication and repetitive behavior. Previous research reveals that people with ASD ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has uncovered an important clue about how the ...