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The latest autism news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Study proposes genetic basis for autism’s strong sex bias Autism has a significant and enduring sex bias, with roughly four boys diagnosed for every girl. For many years, experts have believed this disparity arises primarily from diagnostic inequities because much of autism research - and the screening tools that grew out of it - has historically focused on boys, effectively setting a male standard for what autism "looks like." | | | | |  Study: Autism risk genes are largely consistent across different human ancestries A new study, co-led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published March 30 in Nature Medicine [ 10.1038/s41591-026-04228-6], demonstrates that genes associated with autism risk are largely the same across people of different ancestries. | |
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| | | In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and colleagues throughout the world have been mapping the molecular construction of the human brain. | | | | | Autism BrainNet today released new survey findings revealing a significant disconnect between Americans' strong support of autism research and their limited understanding of the role postmortem brain donation plays in advancing it. | |
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