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An app designed for Google Glass aims to help children with autism recognize emotions, and Sesame Street introduces its first muppet with autism
An app designed for Google Glass aims to help children with autism recognize emotions, and Sesame Street introduces its first muppet with autism
Combining data from different brain scanners can lead to false findings if variation between the machines is not taken into account, according to a new study.
The debate about autism screening resurges, and psychologists want to blacklist the term “autism epidemic.”
A mathematical model of the brain’s circuits shows how neurons stuck in overdrive could produce symptoms of autism. The model may reveal how autism-linked behaviors arise from underlying biology.
Autism labels incite controversy, and a report exposes overmedication of people with autism.
Marijuana gets scrutiny as an autism treatment, and a new app may enable remote diagnosis of autism.
California might make vaccines mandatory, and religious figures may weigh in on the genetic engineering of embryos.
Parents deem children with autism who are fussy diners as more severely impaired than those who eat a wide range of foods.
Older women and men are at high risk of having a child with autism — and so are teenage girls and parents whose age differs by at least a decade, according to a multinational study of more than 5 million children.
People with autism are twice as likely to carry alterations in genes that regulate the circadian clock, or the body’s sleep-wake cycle as those without the disorder. The findings may help explain why most children with autism have trouble with sleep.