Autism symptoms dramatically improved after treatment with Vitamin D
There's a growing body of evidence suggesting Vitamin D plays an important role in regulating serotonin. This means it could ...
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There may not be such a thing as autism epidemic – the explanation might lie in the diagnosis
Over the last couple of years, cases of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) increased by 30%, according to ...
Autism genes predict higher intelligence – if you’re not autistic in the first place
A link between heightened intelligence and autism has been suspected by scientists based on empirical evidence, and now genetic screening ...
No two autistic brains are alike – each has unique connections
For most people, brains are pretty similar - our connections follow the same pattern, and while there are certainly exceptions, ...
Link found between circumcision and autism
A recent study has shown that no matter the culture, circumcised boys have a significantly larger chance of developing autism ...
Chemical switch found in Alzheimer’s and stroke victims’ brains kills neurons
Effects of Alzheimer's. Image: healthbenefitstimes.com Researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have found a ...
Autism is prevented in mice and rats by diuretic drug administration, study shows
An imbalance in chloride ions during a fetus’s development is one of the factors for autism, study shows. Some children ...
Remembering faces is influenced by genetics. Face recognition gene found
Some people just have the knack of remembering the face of everyone they've met in their lives, while others, on ...
Yawning not contagious for autistic children due to inattention to social cues – not lack of empathy
Boredom, tiredness, stress - they can all lead to a big healthy yawn; but even when none of those are ...
Children can recover from an autism diagnosis, study finds
It's no easy task for any psychologist to bear the news to a parent that his child is suffering from ...
Study finds that the mothers of children with autism are more than 21 times as likely to have specific Maternal Autoantibody Related antibodies in their systems
Autism is one of the biggest medical mysteries of the 21st century, and researchers are still trying to figure out ...
Autism speeds motion perception
It seems to me that we've just began to scratch the surface of what we know about autistic spectrum disorder ...
Autism can be detected by analyzing brain activity
Researchers Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have demonstrated for the first time that ...
Treating Autism with Umbilical Cord Blood
When a child is diagnosed with autism, families often embark on a ...
Reverting autism in mice
Autism is a condition we're just starting to learn about, and currently, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects up to 1 ...
Almost 2 percent of newborn boys suffer from autism
Autism is truly one of the medical conditions we have extremely much to learn about - the only way it ...
Autistic people think little of their social status
For most of us, many of the actions we undertake are made while ...
Research unveils increased rate of autism
Autism is still yet poorly understood, and researchers are just starting to figure out the mechanisms behind this strange condition ...
Kaspar the friendly robot – helping autistic children smile
Pictured on the left is Eden Sawczenko, an autistic four year girl from Stevenage, that has had a lot of ...
The first autist had quite a life
I recently came across a great article written by The Atlantic which I strongly suggest you read, about the first ...