Venezuelan scientist offers reality check for autism research
From the start, it was clear that Cecilia Montiel-Nava’s talk on autism prevalence was going to be different. Autism may...
Month: January 2021
Imaging techniques capture real-world social interaction
Social sections: Viewing an emotional scene between two characters in a movie lights up the social brain. Three new approaches to...
How to offer support for young autistic children in South Africa
Autism affects people everywhere in the world, but the problem is most significant in low- and middle-income countries. In these...
Prominent scientists call for ban on human gene editing
A new committee of the World Health Organization is calling for an international registry to track studies that edit human...
In defense of childhood disintegrative disorder
Regression, or the loss of skills, has been associated with autism since Leopold Kanner first used the word ‘autistic’ to describe a...
Reactions from IMFAR 2014
We checked in from Atlanta, Georgia, where the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research ran 14-17 May. Read below for daily...
Reactions from SfN 2013
13 November 2013: Final Day Flying home from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2013 meeting in San Diego provided a...
Large U.K. study reports stable rates of autism
The prevalence of autism among 8-year-old children remained relatively stable from 2004 to 2010 in the U.K., reports a study...
U.S. drug agency moves to guard against abuse of ‘orphan drug’ program
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is changing the way it approves medicines known as ‘orphan drugs’ after revelations...
Autism in translation garners more research interest
As autism awareness increases around the world, translations of English-language autism screening and diagnostic instruments are proliferating. For example, nine...
