Emotions Easier to Understand without Words
How can you tell if someone is happy? A happy person might laugh or say that they feel happy, but the brain is more quickly able to interpret one of these responses than the other. A study from [...]
Social Ties Keep Us Healthy
Health is usually considered an individual pursuit: you eat healthy and you exercise. According to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, being healthy is more than [...]
Autistic Girls’ Friendships Differ from Autistic Boys’
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more frequently diagnosed in boys than in girls. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 42 boys have ASD, but only 1 in 189 girls [...]
Social Skills Key to Infant Language Acquisition
How babies learn language is still not fully understood, but researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) are working to unravel the [...]
Social Skills Program Aids Young Adults with ASD
There are many interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but fewer treatments exist for young adults with ASD. A program from the University of California, Los Angeles [...]
Pets Improve Social Skills for Autistic Children
Having a pet in the family can benefit children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) finds new research from the University of Missouri (MU). While previous research in pets and ASD has focused on [...]