…Autism Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders in humans, such as SHANK3 . Jeffrey Rogers, PhD, associate professor at the Human Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Molecular and Human…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which impacts communication and interaction abilities, affects 1 in every 54 children in the United States. In order to understand the biological basis of these types…

…cluttered surroundings, for people who have autism or Alzheimer’s. “This, for us, is a very exciting demonstration because it breaks open a whole lot of questions we can ask about…

…researchers also compared vasopressin levels in seven boys with autism and seven others without the condition. Similar to the results with the rhesus macaques, children with autism had lower vasopressin…

…just part of the larger effort to understand how brain circuits works during natural social behaviors. The more we understand, the easier it is to tackle disorders, such as autism,…

…In addition to work with HIV, CRISPR is currently being used to help researchers understand conditions such as blindness, autism, and neurodegenerative diseases that are too complex to be studied…

Are vaccines tied to an increased risk of autism? That’s the question researchers at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) are working to answer. While scientific research continues, the…