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Study Ties Autism to Maternal High Blood Pressure, Diabetes

Children born to women who had diabetes or high blood pressure while pregnant are at an increased risk of autism, two new studies suggest

Meet the “Bad Boy” of Autism Research

Dennis Wall explores radical ideas, including “smart glasses” to help interpret emotions

Analysis of a Million-Plus Genomes Points to Blurring Lines among Brain Disorders

Schizophrenia shares some genetic variants with several psychiatric conditions—and similar overlaps are seen for personality traits and migraines in a massive study

Harder Evidence Builds That Viruses Play a Role in Alzheimer's

A study seeking new drug targets for the disease unexpectedly implicates two types of herpes

Separating Families May Cause Lifelong Health Damage

A noted pediatrician and advocate for immigrant children says the effects will last well beyond the separation

A Revolution in Fighting Clots

A technique called thrombectomy widens the time window in which stroke victims can be treated

Growth Spurt in Head, Skeleton Mark Autism in Boys

Boys with autism have smaller heads, are shorter and weigh less at birth than their typical peers do—but all that changes by age 3, a new study suggests

Treating Tourette's Syndrome without Drugs

Behavior intervention therapy can work as well as medication, without the risk of side effects

We Need to Stop Moving the Goalposts for Autism

The incidence has skyrocketed since the disorder was first described in 1943, but much of that increase is misleading

Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut?

A growing body of evidence links the neurodegenerative disease to the gastrointestinal tract, opening new possibilities for treatment

Is It Time to Give Up on a Single Diagnostic Label for Autism?

That was the ruling by the editors of the authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 2013, but it remains controversial

Possible Autism Biomarker Found in Monkeys

Low levels of vasopressin linked to social behavior differences

The Problem with Asperger's

It’s not the condition; it’s Hans Asperger, who wasn’t the first to describe it in any case, and whose research was influenced by Nazism...

Sound Awake: “Noisy” Neurons May Repeatedly Disrupt Your Sleep

Study proposes novel sleep theory, but whether it can explain infant death syndrome remains less clear

Autism Prevalence Jumps 16 Percent, CDC Says

Rising awareness of the condition’s characteristics may contribute to an increase in reporting 

Is “Friendly Fire” in the Brain Provoking Alzheimer's Disease?

Scientists want to combat dementia and neurodegeneration by keeping the brain’s immune system from going rogue

Some Mutations Tied to Autism May Be Passed Down from Fathers

The findings go against previous studies that suggest mutations are inherited from mothers

Total Recall: The Latest Tools for Understanding How Memory Works

A Brain Deprived of Memory

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American , talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love , about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain...

Worn Like a Helmet, a New Brain Scanner Aims to Make It Easier to Treat Kids with Epilepsy

Lightweight equipment is not much larger than what a bicyclist would wear