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Mental health conditions are common among autistic adults, with 50% of autistic adults having a co-occurring condition, like ...
Scientists discover connection between left-handedness and neurological disorders. Study reveals lefties have 3.5 times higher autism risk, pointing to shared genetic and developmental factors.
An estimated 10% of people in the world are left-handed — and suffer from a societal bias than spans back centuries. Now, a new study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin has more bad ...
Explore how emotional responses to social encounters are processed in the brain and how imbalances can lead to neuropsychiatric conditions.
What is ASD? The breadth of associated traits is why someone with autism is diagnosed with one of three specific levels of severity — as recommended by the American Psychiatric Association's ...
New research has revealed clear correlations between a person's profession and their predisposition to several psychiatric traits and disorders, including ADHD, autism, depression, schizophrenia ...
In psychiatric conditions like autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia, differences in social behavior correlate with changes in brain volume, a newly published study shows. The finding comes ...
New study links autism genes with schizophrenia Researchers at University of Haifa discover the two neurological disorders share a lot more genes than previously believed.
A new Israeli study has discovered that 75 percent of the genes associated with autism are also linked to schizophrenia. “Until now, we were unaware that these two disorders share such a large ...
Neuroscientists from the University of Maryland have come a step closer to understanding how disorders such as autism and schizophrenia develop in children, opening the door for potential new ...
Severe inflammation very early in childhood might hamper the development of key brain cells, perhaps setting the stage for conditions such as autism or schizophrenia, new research suggests.
New research has for the first time shown how inflammation in early childhood can affect brain development, triggering epigenetic changes in brain regions linked to higher cognitive functions, and ...