This news release is available in German. The insular cortex is an integral "hub", combining sensory, emotional and cognitive content. Not surprisingly, alterations in insular structure and function ...

Objective: To present a model for early intervention in autism and demonstrate the efficacy of a treatment based on Chinese medicine on measures of autism. In Chinese medical terms, the model explains ...

Autism constitutes a spectrum of clinical symptoms that are caused by a constellation of genetic and environmental causes; thus, to improve early diagnosis of the disorders and provide possible routes ...

An international research collaboration has developed a VR imaging system that can measure a wide range of neural activity in the cortices of mice during active behavior. This enabled them to ...

New research provides a potential brain-based explanation for social touch aversion in some forms of autism. A study published in Nature Communications finds that in a mouse model of Fragile X ...

Neuroscientists have identified a brain region linked to altered social interactions in an autism model. Restoring activity of a specific forebrain region in a mouse model also reversed social traits ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...