If you are neurodivergent, or parenting a neurodivergent child, it can often feel like the world doesn’t take you seriously.

Differences in the physical shape and wiring of the brain can directly contribute to the development of attention and social ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Once upon a time, science worked on the assumption that there was such a thing as a “normal” brain that neatly conformed to society. Those who were different might be diagnosed with an illness or ...

A single injection into the bloodstream of a mouse corrected a mutation linked to autism in neurons throughout the brain and ...

Joseph Buxbaum was initially unconvinced. When early hints of a connection between autism and Alzheimer’s began to appear in the medical literature a few years ago, they struck him as implausible — ...

Language can prove a bugaboo for children with autism. Now new research finds that it’s possible to use toddlers’ brain responses to words to predict their linguistic and cognitive skills down the ...

How we building things, such as a Lego model, shows some reduced right-hand specialization in adults with autism compared to the control group. TORONTO, Jan. 19, 2026 – Most people take for granted ...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition The link between the gut and brain offers new ways to understand how they interact ...