The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Autism has always been described as a spectrum, but for families, doctors, and educators, that word often feels too vague. It ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.

Every child blossoms in their own time. Some take their first steps earlier, while others find their voice a little later. These differences are perfectly natural. But when a child consistently falls ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...

They fail to thrive. They have trouble gaining weight and with physical development. There is a tremendous amount of misgivings and misunderstandings—often due to ignorance. Limited knowledge about ...

Children with avoidant/restrictive food intake were significantly more likely than control individuals to have developmental difficulties than healthy control individuals, based on data from more than ...