Null and Noteworthy: Medication timing; oxytocin amounts; sensory sameness
Parents’ health, treatment dosages and sensory perception feature in this month’s crop of null and replicated results.
Parents’ health, treatment dosages and sensory perception feature in this month’s crop of null and replicated results.
Common variants in five regions of the genome may determine whether someone has one condition versus the other.
A standard questionnaire can help identify social (pragmatic) communication disorder more readily in school-age children.
The code may help scientists identify people with the autism-linked condition and recruit them into clinical trials.
Too often, people outside the margins of what’s considered classic autism are left out of research agendas, Abubakare says.
Mood, anxiety, personality and eating disorders more commonly affect autistic people diagnosed in adulthood than those diagnosed in childhood.
Shifts in diagnostic criteria have only added to the condition’s bedeviling heterogeneity, an analysis of smiling, sitting, walking and other early milestones in more than 17,000 autistic children reveals.
Government-convened experts laid out 84 recommendations, with a particular focus on affirming neurodiversity and embracing human rights.
About 15 percent of genes currently included in clinical genetic tests for autism or intellectual disability don’t have enough evidence to support their ties to the conditions, the panel found.
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging data support the remote tactics that kept autism diagnosis going during lockdowns.