People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a therapy for autism that encourages certain behaviors and discourages others. ABA therapy is controversial, as some argue that it reinforces the idea that autistic ...

Scientists have discovered a gene that may be responsible for defining behaviors linked to autism. As autism now affects one in 31 American children – a stark increase from one in 150 in the early ...

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Scientists at Stanford have found that hyperactivity in the brain’s reticular thalamic nucleus may drive autism-like behaviors. In mouse models, drugs and neuromodulation techniques that suppressed ...