Sometimes a gentle touch feels sharp and distinct, other times it fades into the background. This inconsistency isn’t just ...

Predicting autism could be possible through brain wave patterns, study shows The study looked at infants and toddlers, aged 3 months to 3 years.

In children with anorexia nervosa or other restrictive eating disorders, changes in the brain’s outer layer don’t seem to be ...

Children's Health For children with autism, brain inflexibility may explain behavior By Nicole Kwan , Fox News Published July 29, 2014 11:00am EDT | Updated October 28, 2015 8:51am EDT Facebook ...

Some studies show that individuals with autism have hyper-activity (or more activity) in this brain region compared to their typically developing peers (Dichter et al., 2009; Belmonte et al., 2010).

Studying a rare disorder that also causes autism in 25-50 percent of affected patients, new research supports the emerging idea that autism results from disrupted brain "connectivity" causing ...

Autism has effects not just on the brain but also on the nerves in the skin, and that has implications for how individuals sense the world.

Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of neurophysiological analysis and treatments. A team at Johns Hopkins University has ...

Some areas of connection from one part of the brain were more active in the babies with autism, and some were less active. "No one has done this kind of study in 6-month-olds before, and so it ...

New research suggests that small changes in brain connectivity early in life may lead to big changes that contribute to autism and intellectual disabilities. The study, which explores how disruption ...

He said the genes associated with autism spectrum disorder are turned on during a middle period, bridging the pre-natal and post-natal stage. One of the benefits of the gene expression map is that ...