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Children diagnosed with autism before the age of six tend to have different traits to those who are diagnosed later in life.Credit: Matt Roth for The Washington Post/Getty The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism is sometimes linked to their genetic make-up and their risk of developing mental-health conditions, according to an analysis of behavioural and genetic …

A drug used to slow Alzheimer’s disease may help improve social behaviors in some children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results of a small clinical trial are promising, although not yet conclusive. They suggest that a specific subset of young people with ASD may experience positive outcomes from taking memantine, despite previous studies finding no clear benefits. Memantine (sometimes …

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People who learn they have autism after age 6 — the current median age at diagnosis — are often described as having a “milder” form of autism than people diagnosed as toddlers. A new study challenges that assumption. A genetic analysis finds that people with autism spectrum disorder diagnosed in late childhood or adolescence actually have “a different form of …

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Last Monday, President Trump said Tylenol is linked to autism. He was joined by health officials — from left: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Francis …

Last winter, Brian Noonan read online that some doctors were prescribing an obscure drug, typically given to cancer patients, for autism. Curious, he looked into it for his son Benjamin, who had just been diagnosed with autism in October. “We jumped on it,” Noonan said. “It felt right and it made sense.” The medication was leucovorin, also called folinic acid. …

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. About one in 31 (3.2%) children in the United States has been identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Globally, the World Health Organization estimates that around one …

Courtesy Christina Collura Mom Christina Collura and her young son Luca, who was diagnosed with autism at three years old. When Christina Collura heard President Donald Trump’s announcement linking taking Tylenol during pregnancy to autism, she went down a “rabbit hole”. The Canadian mom of two boys, including a 12-year-old son with autism, wracked her brain for if she had …

This week, the Trump administration announced that the FDA had approved leucovorin, a generic drug, as a treatment for autism. The announcement shocked health experts because the FDA’s usual approval process, which is lengthy and rigorous, has been bypassed. Leucovorin, also known as folinic acid, is a derivative of vitamin B. It is typically used to counteract the harmful effects …