For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Recent research has identified specific patterns of brain activity that distinguish young children with autism from their ...

A study conducted by cognitive neuroscience researchers at Brown found that the brains of individuals on the extremes of the political spectrum process information more similarly to each other than to ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) scientists have discovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people compared to ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

Communication between regions of the brain is constantly in flux, but the neuroimaging technologies used to analyze these interactions typically provide only a snapshot representing several minutes’ ...