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

This weeks podcast includes Storyform Science founders H. Adam Steinberg and Holly Kerby, both scientists who now help other scientists use storytelling to convey the importance of their findings to

Gene therapies have been in the news lately. They are being used to help individuals who have a genetic variant linked to a disorder or disease, including but not limited to: spinal muscular atrophy,

The NIH has launched the new Autism Data Science Initiative: https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/autism-data-science-initiative/funding-opportunities#section1, which brings questions about why linking different da