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Exome sequencing of 31 Rwandan children with autism and both parents found a likely disease-causing variant in 4 children (12.9%), or 9 (29.0%) counting uncertain variants that fit their sym…
Read articleIn a UK registry study of 130 autistic adults on prescribed cannabis, self-rated anxiety and sleep improved most in the first months and partly faded by 18 months as THC doses rose; there wa…
Read articleIn a 2026 study of BTBR mice, a lab strain used to model autism, males and females showed different autism-like changes. Female BTBR mice formed fewer habits and engaged less with other mice…
Read articleAutistic children under 6 fell asleep later, woke later and slept a little less than typically developing children of the same age, according to a 2026 study from Guangzhou, China.1 Parents …
Read articleAutistic young people who also have ADHD showed weaker resting brain connections than autistic peers without ADHD, according to a 2026 brain-imaging study of 69 people.1 Most autism-linked d…
Read articleAutistic children had more complex, irregular brain-wave signals at rest than typically developing children in a 2026 EEG study of 186 kids aged 3 to 11 in Beijing.1 The gap was widest in pr…
Read articleIn an MRI study of 337 young people aged 8 to 18, autistic boys and autistic girls each showed their own cluster of brain structure differences compared with peers of the same sex.1 The boys…
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