Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Structural and functional circuit deficits in the mesolimbic reward pathway contributed to measures of social ...

ASD is a developmental disorder that affects behavior and communication. Even though autism can be diagnosed at any age, the symptoms usually appear within infancy. People living with autism may ...

In autism, brain regions tailored to respond to voices are poorly connected to reward-processing circuits, according to a new study. In autism, brain regions tailored to respond to voices are poorly ...

I read a fascinating paper this month about social and nonsocial rewards, and how reward responses may help explain symptoms of autism and loneliness in adults with autism or depression. The paper was ...

A pair of recent studies performed by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania represents a significant step forward in understanding the role of ...

Children with autism have structural and functional abnormalities in the brain circuit that normally makes social interaction feel rewarding, according to a new study from the Stanford University ...

Even as a practitioner who works with autistic women, and as an autistic woman myself, understanding what exactly autism spectrum disorder is can be difficult. We tend to think of spectrums in terms ...