With funding from the NIH earmarked by the Autism CARES Act, researchers aim to pinpoint the environmental factors that increase a child's likelihood for developing autism ...

Standardized Autism Screening During Pediatric Well Visits ... Scientists Create Map of DNA Modification in the Developing Human Brain Oct. 9, 2024 — A new study has created a map of DNA ...

Advocates worry that as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undermine years of work to unlink autism and vaccines and ...

In the brain, regulating cellular growth is especially important during early development in the first few years of life. Numerous genes contribute to this regulation, but one gene in particular—PTEN ...

Then, a few years ago, she was diagnosed with autism, just after her youngest daughter received the same. “If your life has always felt like it was in chaos and you don’t feel comfortable and ...