Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" to each other. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in ...

People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that studying the autistic brain is essential, most people are unaware that brain ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition, is often associated with difficulties in social communication and repetitive behavior. Previous research reveals that people with ASD ...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it’s the severity of autism-like traits that seems to shape how the brain ...

If you are neurodivergent, or parenting a neurodivergent child, it can often feel like the world doesn’t take you seriously. The challenges might be huge, but they’re largely invisible and often ...

A human voice has no special ring to the autistic brain because areas related to reward and emotional context are not well wired to its center of voice recognition, a Stanford University study has ...

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...