The Second Roche–Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium on Autism and other developmental brain disorders was a resounding success. Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that we ...

The mystery of autism has long enthralled both scientists and individuals. Over time, researchers have proposed various theories of the condition from the diametric mind to the extreme male brain ...

By analyzing two large rsfMRI datasets from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE I and II), they identified three dimensions of brain-behavior relationships. These dimensions corresponded ...

What if brain scans could help detect autism earlier and more precisely? A new study led by researchers at the University of Fukui, and published in NeuroImage, investigates how white matter ...

Researchers have shown previously that excessive proliferation of the cells of the brain, which can cause macrocephaly, or large head size, is associated with autism. Now, the authors of a study ...

"Since then, our understanding of what autism is has changed a lot," says Qi, who directs the Language Acquisition and Brain Laboratory (QLab) and uses neuroimaging to study language development ...