Reading time: 2 minutes Associate Professor Masato Yoshizawa conducting research in the Isabella Aiona Abbott Life Sciences Building. Stereotypic repetitive behaviors are common in people with autism.

A research team has unveiled the cause and molecular mechanism of chronic brain inflammation that results in repetitive behavioral disorders. The research team demonstrated that an inflammatory ...

Autism is diagnosed roughly three times more often in boys than in girls, one of the largest sex imbalances seen among ...

Stimming—short for "self-stimulatory behavior"—is a form of self-soothing commonly seen in autistic people. It can involve repetitive movements, sounds, or actions and is commonly regarded in medical ...

A recent brain imaging study reveals that the reward system is hyper-connected to other social networks in autistic ...

Hyperactivity, repetitive behavior, and language deficits all appeared in the mice, highlighting an unexpected role the cerebellum seems to play in autism. More than 70 genes have been linked to ...

Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder face a markedly elevated risk of three little-known feeding and eating ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social communication and interaction or restricted and repetitive behaviors. Former basketball player Han ...

Repetitive behaviors are not an uncommon part of human experience, but not all repetitive actions serve the same purpose or carry the same meaning. Two types of behaviors that are often confused are ...