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About 9 in 10 children referred for ADHD or autism had elevated symptoms in at least 2 of 4 areas — ADHD, autism, defiance and learning problems — and the same overlap showed up in ordinary …
Read articleAutistic doctors run into avoidable barriers as they move from medical school into their first hospital jobs, according to a 2026 UK review that also proposes a 7-part plan to support them.1…
Read articleGuanfacine, a non-stimulant ADHD medication, reduced hyperactivity in autistic children in a placebo-controlled trial. A 2026 review argues it may also steady prefrontal brain signaling and …
Read articleA matched case-control study of 50 children with autism spectrum disorder and 50 controls found that newborn amino acid metabolism overlapped with both later autism diagnosis and prenatal ai…
Read articleA 2026 medRxiv preprint using parent-cocreated sensory-related outcome measures found that 83% of children and teens improved on at least 1 PROMIS domain during 6 months of bumetanide treatm…
Read articleA 2026 developing Human Connectome Project analysis of 438 full-term neonates found that the newborn cortex already had an adult-like folding hierarchy: gyri connected most strongly to other…
Read articleA 2025 paper by Gu et al. in Molecular Psychiatry — the largest study of its kind — finds that higher common-variant genetic risk for autism predicts lower cortical neurite density in 31,748…
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