Exercise Alleviates Symptoms of Autism, Mouse Study Says

(Credit: Andrew Burgess/Shutterstock)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has no cure. And medications to treat the condition’s core symptoms – anxiety, repetitive behaviors and difficulty engaging in social interactions like talking to others – do not exist. Now researchers may have landed on a simple and effective way to ease autism symptoms: exercise.Exercise reversed autistic behaviors in an animal model of the condition researchers announced Tuesday in the journal Cell