Autism Spectrum Disorders News

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.

Maternal infection during pregnancy significantly increased the risk for depression and autism spectrum disorder in offspring, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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.

After controlling for family-related confounders, lower birth weight was associated with an increased risk for several psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression, researchers found.

The risk for death by suicide in people with autism spectrum disorder from Utah —especially females — increased over time and was greater than in those without ASD between 2013 and 2017, according to results from a 20-year population-based study.

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.

In a Danish population-based cohort study of almost 6 million people, researchers found that individuals with any mental disorder were at increased risk for comorbid mental disorders.

Compared with neurotypical adults, those with autism spectrum disorder showed greater impairments in not only social cognitive domains, but also nonsocial cognitive areas, according to study findings.