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Babies’ EEG patterns predict whether they will develop autism

Signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) typically start to become apparent only in a child’s second year of life or …Read More

My older sister, Tanya, began having periodic fainting episodes when we were teenagers. The doctors were stumped, but my dad …Read More

Katie Accardi isn’t a first-time parent. As mom to 4-year-old Harper, she’s familiar with typical baby behavior, like crying and …Read More

Almost 10 percent of pediatric deaths occur suddenly and without explanation. In this terrible situation, the first question many parents …Read More

New research on autism has found, in a mouse model, that drug treatment at a young age can reverse social …Read More

Kristen Grip stood in the middle of the basketball court, motionless. Around her, the action continued as usual — the …Read More

Last week was a good week for neuroscience. Boston Children’s Hospital received nearly $2.2 million from the Massachusetts Life Sciences …Read More

In 2009, The New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of an otherwise healthy 2-year-old boy in Canada who died after …Read More

Autism clearly runs in some families, yet few inherited genetic causes have been found. A major reason is that these …Read More

The image above and the movie below show an immune cell caught in the act of tending the brain. The …Read More