Just over a decade ago, autism and ADHD were thought to be mutually exclusive. But in recent years, all that has changed

New research finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest -- a 42 percent increase on average. The study offers a scientific explanation for the most typical characteristic of autism -- withdrawal into one's own inner world. The excess production of information may explain a child's detachment from their environment.

I think therapy can help but it has to be tailored to our brains. I just listened to this podcast about it recently by two autistic therapists:...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects a significant number of individuals worldwide with the prevalence continuing to grow. It is becoming clear that a large subgroup of individuals with ASD demonstrate abnormalities in mitochondrial function as well ...

Autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed at a level of 1, 2, or 3, with each indicating different support needs.

There's a lot of debate about whether self-diagnosis for autism, ADHD and similar disabilities is valid.

This is all informed by my anarchist perspective but the arguments I'm making should be clear to anyone who wants human liberation.

Ablism is rooted in the fact that it delivers for some people, that it gathers energy unto itself and uses this like a squatting parasite to reproduce itself.

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Researchers are embarking on a pioneering study to uncover how genes associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) converge to affect brain neurons, particularly leading to heightened sound sensitivity.

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Alondra Rogers, DSW, LMSW (@dr_alondra_rogers). 43 Replies. 679 Likes. Autistic minds function differently. One common (not universal) feature is what some call Gestalt Cognitive Processing. This is...

Kann mir vielleicht aus der Neurodivergenz Bubble erklären warum mich die Akupressurmatte so extrem krass entspannt und runter fährt?

Why are autism & ADHD considered completely separate conditions when they have a ton of overlapping traits and neither’s origins are known? My mind just won’t let this go until it makes sense…

There is a large degree of overlap between the genetic causes of autism and ADHD. Now, researchers from Aarhus University have found gene variants, which increase the risk of developing only one of the diagnoses and not the other.br /br /

There are prominent scientists that put them into one umbrella term, google “Gillberg ESSENCE“ Early Symptomatic Syndroms Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations

PDF | On Apr 8, 2022, Katherine E. Reuben and others published Dissociation in Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Under-Recognized Symptom | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Along with the study of brain activity evoked by external stimuli, an increased interest in the research of background, “noisy” brain activity is fast developing in current neuroscience. It is becoming apparent that this “resting-state” activity is a major factor determining other, more particular, responses to stimuli and hence it can be argued that background activity carries important information used by the nervous systems for adaptive behaviors. In this context, we investigated the generation of information in ongoing brain activity recorded with magnetoencephalography (MEG) in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and non-autistic children. Using a stochastic dynamical model of brain dynamics, we were able to resolve not only the deterministic interactions between brain regions, i.e., the brain's functional connectivity, but also the stochastic inputs to the brain in the resting state; an important component of large-scale neural dynamics that no other method can resolve to date. We then computed the Kullback-Leibler (KLD) divergence, also known as information gain or relative entropy, between the stochastic inputs and the brain activity at different locations (outputs) in children with ASD compared to controls. The divergence between the input noise and the brain's ongoing activity extracted from our stochastic model was significantly higher in autistic relative to non-autistic children. This suggests that brains of subjects with autism create more informatio...

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Several validated adult autism symptom screening tools exist; however, there are concerns about the validity of instruments in adults who self-identify and thos...

Wir bieten Diagnostik an für Menschen, die sich im Autismus- Spektrum verorten.

Instead of trying to reform the diagnostic process, we should work to move past it.

The estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in individuals over 8 years is currently one in 44, with applied behavioural analysis being the most commonly used state-funded form of treatment for autism in the USA.1 Part of its widespread availability is the policy of the American Medical Association (AMA), which supported applied behavioural analysis as the first choice evidence-based treatment for autism.1 However, at the AMA House of Delegates annual meeting in June, 2023, Resolution 706 entitled, “Revision of H-185.921, removal of AMA support for applied behavior analysis”,1 put forward two changes.