"A couple of very rare genetic types of autism have already been linked to the mTOR pathway, but this is the first to connect mTOR with genes in the 16p11.2 area, which does not have mTOR on it ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a wide array of challenges in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors. It’s not a single entity but a diverse condition with ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has questioned why autism rates have been rising over the last several years. Experts say he's missing ...

While there’s no lab test for an autism spectrum disorder, there are other types of tests they may want to do, such as hearing and speech evaluation and genetic testing. The key is to find out ...

Ongoing imprecision in defining the autism spectrum will only impede progress in discovering the causes of the condition.

This growing understanding of these specific, related genetic disorders, Santarelli adds, provides a pathway to think about possible extrapolations to the more sporadic types of autism.

Sequencing the nuclear RNA of more than 100,000 individual postmortem brain cells from people with and without autism spectrum disorder indicates the types of genes dysregulated in the condition and ...

Autism is about four times more common in boys ... They appreciate the valuable skills and contributions of different types of minds, just as they appreciate the value of other types of diversity.