Years after a controversial study was proven to be fraudulent, studies show there’s no link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. In 1998, a medical journal published ...

A meningioma is a tumor that forms on the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord just inside the skull. These membranes are called the meninges and consist of three layers. Specifically ...

There are three levels of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which are described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). Each autistic person is diagnosed as ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — For the first time, neuroscientists have just finished mapping out the entire brain of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The research reveals the most complete map of a ...

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The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers’ understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly’s Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

She was refusing affection. She had different behaviors. Autism is a brain development disability whose symptoms can range across a wide spectrum of severity, with repetitive speech and behaviors ...

focusing on the brain’s reaction to unexpected sounds. The approach leverages the known phenomenon that individuals with ADHD and autism often exhibit different responses to unexpected sounds ...

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map ...

Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis, said many researchers have discounted environmental contributors to such brain-related issues as autism and Alzheimer's.