One reason it's common to be alarmed about increasing autism diagnoses, says Gross, is that societies generally haven't built ...

Have you ever wondered if your child is autistic? “Autism” is a loaded word, and it comes with many misconceptions. In our ...

United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a massive testing and research effort to identify the ...

Mental illness rates are rising, but not because of a crisis. They are a predictable result of stress, expanded criteria, and ...

The autism net has been cast wider. One group of people now falling under this net more often is women and girls. Studies ...

Coined in 2018 by Romanian psychologist Marius Zamfir, it describes autism-like symptoms tied to excessive screen exposure in ...

Kennedy, who has for years promoted the discredited claim that vaccines cause autism, didn't mention childhood shots when ...

Australia: A recent Australian study has found that disrupted sleep patterns in infancy may be early indicators of autism ...

It’s a descriptive term with no agreed-upon medical definition or criteria, which makes it ... child is a late-talker child and receives an ASD diagnosis, you should ask your clinician what ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...