Dr. Robert Naviaux, a professor of medicine, pediatrics and pathology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the study’s lead ...

A new study proposes that autism arises when genetic vulnerability, an early environmental trigger, and prolonged activation of the cellular stress response align during critical developmental windows ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

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In Naviaux’s framing, extracellular ATP acts as a danger signal that keeps cells in that defensive mode. If the signal stays ...

Scientists saw that a trio of supplements improved brain connectivity and social behaviour in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in three different mouse models.

The development of autism may now become easier to understand, thanks to an explanatory model presented in a thesis from University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This model provides new insights into how ...

By analyzing over 213,000 developing human brain cells, researchers show that many autism risk genes act through the ECM.

Mishka Sibert, the older sister of an autistic individual, Samko, who is non-verbal, felt these concerns. "My mother especially worries about Samko's future, and no possibility for employment due to ...