Video modelling interventions harness observational learning by presenting individuals with recorded examples of target behaviours, aiming to improve social communication, adaptive skills and safety ...

Impaired social cognition is a key symptom dimension in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and — to a lesser extent — in bipolar disorder, and is highly predictive of poor community functioning. However ...

Two studies led by the Chahrour Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center shed new light on genes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the neurodevelopmental disease characterized by impaired ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the agency plans to study possible environmental links to autism spectrum disorder.

Mutations in FMR1, the gene encoding fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 (FMRP), located at Xq27.3 and discovered in 1991, are the leading single-gene causes of autism and intellectual disability.