Autism Spectrum Disorders News

After examination of three independent cohorts, researchers found that extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid volume was higher in children with autism spectrum disorder from 6 months through to age 3 years, regardless of familial risk.

Electroencephalography, or EEG, technology that measures brain function could encourage earlier diagnoses of common mental and neurological disorders, including autism, ADHD and dementia, according to findings published in The Neurodiagnostic Journal.

Findings published in Biological Psychiatry reported that amino acid dysregulation metabotypes may offer a way to diagnose a subset of children with autism spectrum disorder earlier.

Children and teenagers with autism spectrum disorder — especially those without intellectual disability — were more likely to have depression by young adulthood than the general population, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

Gene expression activity within oral microbial communities may be altered in children with autism spectrum disorder, findings published in Autism Research revealed.

Children with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, achieved greater improvement of constipation and insomnia symptoms when families were involved in setting treatment goals compared with prescriptive treatment goals set by clinicians, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

Study findings published in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed that maternal exposure to insecticides during pregnancy was linked to autism in offspring.

Immunizing pregnant women with Tdap is not related to an increased risk of later autism spectrum diagnoses in their offspring, according to research published in Pediatrics.

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in the general population has been reported at 0.76%, but a study published in Pediatrics suggests that 7% of infants born preterm have ASD.

Exploratory study results demonstrated that a machine-learning-assisted software system that runs on Google Glass, paired with a smartphone app, helped children with autism understand the emotions conveyed in other’s facial expressions.