News & Opinion
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31 January 2011Comments ( 1 )Researchers have identified a rare genetic variant linked to autism in DLX1, a gene that regulates the growth of neurons, they reported in December in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.
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28 January 2011Comments ( 3 )A man’s risk of fathering a child with autism begins to rise at age 30 and significantly increases after age 50, according to a report published online 30 November in Molecular Psychiatry.
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27 January 2011Comments ( 1 )Autism is popularly viewed as a disorder of childhood, not old age, but that doesn’t mean senior citizens are unaffected.
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27 January 2011Comments ( 2 )Children with autism do not use efficient, systematic methods to search for an object, according to a study published in January in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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26 January 2011Comments ( 0 )Children with autism understand fewer words than their verbal ability would suggest, according to a study published in December in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
