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In interviews, 24 Chinese parents of autistic children said short-video apps like Douyin taught them practical skills and gave them hope, but also fed confusion, comparison, urgency and sale…
Read articleIn interviews, 17 parents of autistic children in Spain described a long road to diagnosis, shock and sadness sometimes mixed with relief, little guidance afterward, family life reorganized …
Read articleIn 106 young adults without diagnoses, more autism traits went with less precise eye-contact judgments and more social anxiety with sharper ones. Psychosis-prone traits showed no link.
Read articleA 2026 case report describes a man in his 30s with autism, childhood temporal lobe epilepsy and treatment-resistant schizophrenia whose delusions center on fictional media characters. Clozap…
Read articleIn a fetal MRI study of 105 pregnancies, chronic placental inflammation was linked to differences in fetal brain connectivity; one weaker connection went with higher autism trait scores at a…
Read articleParent ratings of 479 autistic children in China sorted into 4 social profiles. The most socially engaged group also had the most peer problems; the profiles still need replication.
Read articleAt a Florida neurology practice, 371 of 1,011 autistic patients who had genetic testing (36.7%) had an abnormal result. A seizure history and female sex were linked to higher odds; EEG and M…
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