April 17th, 2013

A new study by University of Missouri investigators discovers that propranolol (Inderal), a drug commonly used to treat ...
April 10th, 2013

Investigators from the University of Wisconsin–Madison find the age at which a child with autism is diagnosed ...
April 9th, 2013

Normally, kids copying adult behavior will go out of their way to repeat each and every element of the behavior even ...
April 1st, 2013

Despite a lack of scientific evidence, approximately one-third of parents believe an association exists between the number of vaccines a child receives, ...
March 30th, 2013

Autism spectrum disorders, or ASDs, affect 1 in 50 American children, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The ...
March 28th, 2013

New research suggests that when humans communicate emotions, they are actually experiencing a synthesis of three processes that occur in separate ...
March 23rd, 2013

Women who were victims of childhood abuse are at greater risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder, according ...
March 22nd, 2013

A new study suggests that we remember and manage social networks by using a rule-based system, rather than by rote memory.
Cornell University sociologist Dr. Matthew Brashears ...
March 14th, 2013

New research shows that autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect the brain activity of children and adults differently.
"We found ...
March 14th, 2013

A new study shows that punishment can enhance performance in the same way as a monetary reward.
“This work reveals important new information about how the brain functions ...