The accomplishments of Japanese poet, novelist and essayist Naoki Higashida are impressive. He's published more than 20 books in Japanese, pens a popular blog and is seeing the release this month of his second book in English — all before his 25th birthday in ...
Women who are infected with genital herpes early in their pregnancy may face twice the risk of bearing a child with autism, a team of U.S. and Norwegian researchers said Wednesday. The report in mSphere, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology journal, is ...
A research team including Nobuo Masataka, professor at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, has found that boys with autism spectrum disorder tend not to like yellow but show a preference for green. "Yellow may tire autistic children. I want people to take this into account ...
Neuroscientists acting as cartographers of the human mind have devised the most comprehensive map ever made of the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for higher cognitive functions such as abstract thought, language and memory. Using MRI images from the brains of 210 ...
Thirteen-year-old Naoki Higashida describes his own personal feelings about having autism as follows: "I feel a deep envy of people who can know what their own minds are saying, and who have the power to act accordingly. My brain is always sending me off on ...
The Navy is paying for research into an app to screen for autism in the hopes that it could eventually be tweaked to look for signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. While developmental and trauma disorders might at first appear strange bedfellows, the researchers and a ...
Chinese scientists have created monkeys with a version of autism that could eventually help in the cure for this complex spectrum of brain disorders.
Due to a dearth of job opportunities in Japan for autistic people, mainly deriving from a lack of understanding toward the disorder, it is often difficult for them to lead independent lives after they attain adulthood. However, an institution in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, is one ...
Artist Kengo Nawashiro, 26, loves drawing buildings and towers. His beautifully colored paintings of the Tokyo Skytree are printed on postcards and sold at art events. Nawashiro credits his success to renowned art educator Chieko Awata, who is a specialist in nurturing the talents ...
In his book, "Life, Animated," Ron Suskind tells the remarkable story of how Disney movies unlocked his autistic son's emotions.
