A study in Biological Psychiatry provides a new understanding of brain alterations in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that may help researchers and clinicians better define the disorder.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a growing global concern, affecting approximately 2.8% of children in the United States and 0.7% in China. ASD is characterized by challenges in social interaction, ...

This provides a benchmark (in typically developing young children) against which disorders like autism can be understood. Psychiatric disorders are due to atypical brain function, which can be ...

Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence ...

The researchers suspected the pathway—known as the social perception pathway—might be functional very early in development.

Researchers at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology have visualized how brain network development is altered in a ...

When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of ...

Habits are behaviors that have been automated, so you barely need to think about them. When it comes to starting a new habit, the prefrontal cortex is the head of the operation. The PFC is the folded ...