You may have heard terms in early intervention like NDBI or Early Start Denver Model and wondered if there was a difference in efficacy behind all these flavors of toddler interventions. On this w

This week, a new study suggests a causal link not between Tylenol, but to COVID, which can cause a fever. There is clearly more research needed, but the findings are consistent with research on the li

Two pediatricians, a child neurologist and a child psychiatrist walk into the ASF weekly science podcast to discuss the safety, efficacy and appropriateness of leucovorin, the drug that the HHS is fas

The National Institutes of Health just awarded $50million to 13 different research sites to better understand genetic and environmental contributions to an autism diagnosis, or increase in prevalence

In an effort to better understand the causes of autism in those with a known genetic variant associated with ASD or other developmental disorders,in 2010, the Simons Foundation launched Simons VIP, n

This week the @WSJ reported that the upcoming MAHA report will include acetaminophen (also known as Tylenol in the United States, although it is used all over the world) use during pregnancy as a caus

This week, Drs. Casey Burrows from @UMN and Shuting Zheng from @UTexas discuss a new paper looking at sex differences in autism features from 20-40 months of age. A new analysis done with data from th

As the autistic brain ages, is it more vulnerable to other brain disorders? Recent scientific discoveries in Parkinsons Disease and Alzheimers Disease show that there may be an underlying mechanism

This weeks podcast includes summaries from two new scientific studies (with comments from one of the studies authors @SimonsFoundation and @princetonPPH) about that tackle grouping and labeling the

This weeks ASF weekly science podcast features Dr. David Amaral, who directs the Autism BrainNet. The Autism BrainNet is a program that organizes the collection of post-mortem brain tissue and then d