In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers was able to perform functional MRIs of a group of children with autism whose
Every time we look at a face, we take in a flood of information effortlessly: age, gender, race, expression, the direction of our subject’s gaze,
A whole-genome sequencing study of nearly 2,000 families has implicated mutations in ‘promoter regions’ of the genome — regions that precede the start of a
Researchers have uncovered a microRNA cluster that regulates synaptic strength and is involved in the control of social behavior in mammals. The researchers presume that
Research investigating how the brain responds to visual patterns in people with autism has shown that sensory responses change between childhood and adulthood.