A mother from Surrey is warning pregnant women not to rely solely on private maternity clinic scans after her son was born with severe brain problems. Lucas, now five, has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, ...

The 87-year-old Oscar winner revealed in an interview with The Sunday Times that his wife, Stella Arroyave, suspects he is on the autism spectrum. "I'm obsessed with numbers. I'm obsessed with detail.

Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence that shifts in response to genetics and external stimuli like sight and ...

A University of Alberta research team has uncovered a new role for a genetic mutation previously known to be linked to developmental disorders—and it could hold the key to more effective treatments ...

When Donald Trump raises a public health concern, the political reaction often focuses more on him than on the science. If Trump declared that drinking gasoline was dangerous, you can bet a TikTok ...

The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has told Brits to ignore what Donald Trump says about medicine after the US president claimed a link between taking paracetamol and autism. Speaking at the ...

Dr. Tager-Flusberg is the founder of the Coalition of Autism Scientists. Ms. Singer is the president of the Autism Science Foundation and mother of a child with autism. Dr. Lee is an epidemiologist.

"These findings support existing evidence suggesting that brief anesthetic exposure is unlikely to result in clinically significant neurodevelopmental impairment." HealthDay News — For children ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —A Garretson family is doing what it can to raise money to find a cure for a rare syndrome. Three-year-old Carter Dreckman was diagnosed with CTNNB1 when he was just 10 months ...

Making a smoothie, going for an evening walk, or having empathy for a loved one are all examples of executive functions that are controlled by the brain’s frontal cortex. This area of the brain goes ...

The emergence of human brain organoids (hBOs) has transformed how we study brain development, disease mechanisms, and therapy discovery. These 3D in vitro neural models closely mimic the cellular ...