More Autism & Related Disorders News

• Lack of Two Related Genes Disrupts Sleep Cycle

  June 26 (HealthDay News) -- The lack of two related genes tied to autism may ...

• Being Born Small, Early Raises Autism Risk

  June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are born underweight or early have more than ...

• Lawsuit Alleging Mercury-Autism Link to Begin

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A preservative containing mercury and once widely used in childhood ...

• Autistic Kids More Likely to Have Parents with Mental Illness

  May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Parents of children with autism have double the odds of ...

• Muscle Weakness Found in Some Autistic Children

  April 13 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that muscle weakness in a child with ...

• Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism

  April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects ...

• Lack of Brain Protein May Explain 'Rain Man' Abilities

  Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The lack of a particular brain protein may explain the ...

• Another Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism

  Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Yet another study has found no evidence of a link ...

• Gene Plays Role in Risk of Autism

  Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that appears to play a key role in ...

• Chromosome Abnormalities Raise Risk for Autism

  Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Abnormalities on chromosome 16 appear to raise children's risk for ...

• Study Casts Doubt on Vaccine-Autism Link

  Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to a growing body of evidence that rejects the ...

• Brain Protein May Be a Clue to Autism

  Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Problems involving a brain protein called CASK and an enzyme ...

• Fever May Improve Behavior of Children With Autism Disorders

  Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may show improvements in ...

• Autistic Children Have More Gray Matter in Brains

  Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Children diagnosed with autism have more gray matter in their ...

• Major U.S. Autism Study Gets Under Way

  Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A large, five-year study looking at the genetic and environmental ...

• Pediatricians' Group Issues New Autism Guidelines

  MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- In an effort to make it easier for pediatricians ...

• Youngest Infants at Risk of Death While Seated

  July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Cases are very rare, but babies younger than one month ...

• Most U.S. Newborns Now Screened for Genetic Disease

  July 12 (HealthDay News) -- Most American babies are now routinely tested at birth for ...

• Scientists Reverse Symptoms of Autism in Mice

  June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse symptoms of ...