Sensory diversity: Autistic people can be grouped into one of five distinct sensory profiles, and those groupings correlate with functional connectivity measures, a new paper reports. Researchers used machine learning to identify patterns in participants’ Short Sensory Profile scores along with resting-state functional MRI data from across brain areas to construct a functional connectivity matrix. […]
People with autism who are diagnosed earlier as opposed to later in life have distinct genetic profiles, according to a study published last month in Nature. Many factors may influence when someone receives their diagnosis, and several theories explain how genetics contributes. By one line of thinking, people who have subtle autism-related traits during early […]
