2025 Autism Research Year in Review – Scientific Progress During a Challenging Year

• By: | Autism Science Foundation
• December 30th, 2025
• autism heterogeneity and subtypes, brain development, co-occurring conditions, early diagnosis and intervention, gene-environment interactions, genetics, longitudinal developmental outcomes, neurobiology, personalized treatments, precision medicine, sex differences in autism, transdiagnostic traits
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2025 has been a monumentally challenging year for scientists in general and for autism researchers in particular, but despite drastic federal funding cuts, scientists continued to make progress toward understanding autism’s causes, improving diagnosis, and developing more effective treatments and...

Studies Map Gene Expression Across Brain Development

• By: Virginia Hughes SFARI.org
• January 1st, 2014
• autism genetics, brain development, fetal brain development, gene expression, genetic heterogeneity, glutamatergic neurons, neural networks, research, science, synapse function
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Now that genetic studies have implicated several hundred genes in autism, researchers are turning their attention to where and when in the healthy young brain these genes are expressed. The first two studies to tackle these questions appeared on November 21, 2013 in Cell. One report, led by...

ASN Winter 2012 Issue

• January 1st, 2012
• brain development, Clinical Research, diagnosis, early intervention, evidence-based practices, genetics, neuroscience
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"Science Matters: The Latest Advances in Autism Research"   Articles in This...

Boys with Regressive Autism Have Larger Brains than Age-Matched Health Counterparts

• By: Christine Wu Nordahl, PhD David G. Amaral, PhD UC Davis MIND Institute
• January 1st, 2012
• autism phenome project, autism subtypes, brain development, brain growth, brain size, early onset autism, MRI, neurodevelopment, regressive autism, research
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In the largest study of brain development in preschoolers with autism to date, a study by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers has found that 3-year-old boys with regressive autism, but not early onset autism, have larger brains than their healthy counterparts. The study is published online today...

New Trends in Brain and Tissue Banking for Autism Research

• By: New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities Autism Speaks
• January 1st, 2012
• biomarkers, brain bank, brain development, brain tissue, genetics, neuropathology, postmortem studies, research, science, tissue banking
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Professor Giovanni Morgagni, of the University of Padua published in 1761 a book, “The Seats and Causes of Disease Investigated by Anatomy,” that described nearly 700 autopsies and demonstrated that disease is recorded in the pathology of organs in detectable ways. Dr. Richard Cabot’s review...