Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...

Intraverbal behavior, a subset of verbal operants in which a verbal stimulus evokes a response with no point‐to‐point correspondence, is emerging as a critical area of investigation in autism spectrum ...

Training that helps first responders recognize autism-related behaviors and adjust their approach in the first critical ...

Autistic children may be nonverbal or not have the words or other typical communication strategies to clearly explain their ...

Many autistic adults experience mental health difficulties. Research shows that autistic people are more likely than neurotypical people to experience emotion dysregulation, having trouble feeling and ...

Every time I write about extremely aggressive or self-injurious behaviors – either those my son Jonah exhibited before he was medically stabilized in 2010, or those of other autistic teens I know who ...

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show reduced flexible behavior on a probabilistic reversal learning task, underpinned by less optimal learning within each developmental stage, ...

A team of researchers has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene reduces the effect of the hormone ...

In the academic year so far, the proportion of children who are “persistently absent” from schools in England – missing at ...

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A research team from the Department of Psychiatry at Tohoku University, led by Dr. Zhiqian Yu and Professor Hiroaki Tomita, ...