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...

Key Advances in Autism Research

• By: Carrol T. Longshore, MD Metro Community Health Centers, Inc.
• October 1st, 2017
• clinical treatment, fall 2017 issue, genetics, neurobiology, research
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Over the past decade, there has been a great deal of research dedicated to understanding the underlying etiology of Autism. There have been tremendous strides in the knowledge of the genetics, neuroanatomy, neurobiology and ultimately biochemical aberrations of this disorder. Additional research in...