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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The unsatisfying answer to this question is that scientists still don’t fully grasp what leads to autism. Rather than a single gene or lifestyle trend, autism is the result of complex ...

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 ...