Autism: Face-Processing Clues to Inheritance

When reading faces, autistic individuals gain considerably less information from the eyes and more from the mouth. A new study reports that some parents of autistic children use strikingly similar strategies, providing a crucial clue as to what might be inherited in autism.

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