Autism Spectrum Disorders News

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder was higher in 2014 than in 2010 among children aged 4 years, according to CDC data from the Early Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of and educate about autism spectrum disorder.

Infectious Diseases in Children asked Janet R. Gilsdorf, MD, DSc (Hon), FPIDS, a past president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Robert P. Kelch Research Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan Medical Center, how she saw the value of the pediatric ID specialty, why she went into the field and what it means to her.

Pediatric infectious disease specialists are the lowest paid physicians compared with all other medical specialties, according to a recent report.

Cannabis seemed safe, effective and well-tolerated in treating young patients with autism, according to findings recently published in Scientific Reports.

Findings from a study published in JAMA Psychiatry support the effectiveness of training community therapists in publicly funded mental health services to deliver an evidence-based mental health intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder.

New research published in Annals of Internal Medicine provides further evidence that there is no connection between the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and autism, even in children with other risk factors for autism.

In high-risk families, maternal prenatal vitamin use during the first month of pregnancy may decrease the risk for autism spectrum disorder recurrence by half in the younger siblings of children with autism, study findings indicated.

Among children with autism spectrum disorder, study findings revealed that ADHD symptoms were linked to poorer adaptive behavior across all settings and after controlling for key confounders.

Kids with autism spectrum disorder and co-occurring ADHD had “high engagement” with a video-game based tool that delivered sensory and motor stimuli, according to findings recently published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.