IAN Research goes international
The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) research project, formerly limited to families affected by autism who live in the United States, is expanding to include families from all over the globe.

• IAN Bullying Survey featured on ABC2 news
• New medical code for wandering will help promote better understanding about wandering and elopement
• Dr. Paul Law speaks at the IACC meeting about elopment and wandering
• Listen to a podcast of Dr. Paul Law discuss autism treatments and IAN
• IAN releases initial data on elopement and wandering in ASD, and launches new Pregnancy and Birth Questionnaire
• CNN discusses IAN's Elopement and Wandering questionnaire
• IAN launches first ever survey on elopement and wandering in autism

Researchers find that there is an overgrowth of neurons in the prefrontal cortex in brains of people with autism
An article in the November 9, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) documents a significant overgrowth of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of male children with autism. This finding is important because this is the part of the brain that allows people to plan complex cognitive and social behaviors and because the development of neurons in this part of the brain occurs before birth.

• Researchers uncover first biologically distinct autism subtype
• The Combating Autism Reauthorization Act takes important first step towards passage
• Risk of ASD for siblings of children on the autism spectrum higher than previously believed
• Study on the genetics of ADHD finds overlap in genes found in ASD