A Key Brain Difference Linked to Autism Is Found for the First Time in Living People

• By: Isabella Backman Yale School of Medicine
• December 30th, 2024
• communication, diagnostic criteria, neurodiversity, quality of life, research, synapses, Winter 2025 Issue, Yale study
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For decades, researchers have relied on animal models and post-mortem subjects to help unlock the key to certain social and communication differences that are hallmarks of autism. Now, a new study has uncovered a molecular difference in the brains of autistic people that is linked to the central...

A New Way of Thinking About Autism

• By: Eric London, MD NYS Institute for Basic Research
• July 1st, 2013
• brain biology, diagnosis, diagnostic criteria, DSM, mental health research, neurodevelopmental disorders, psychiatric diagnosis, research domain criteria
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On April 29, 2013 Dr. Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), wrote on the NIMH Director’s Blog that the Institute will be re-orienting its research away from currently used diagnostic categories (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or “DSM”) and...