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

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

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

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

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

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

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in ...

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

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

We already know a lot about the disorder and why its prevalence has increased.

Autism rates are higher than ever before, probably because of more expansive and sensitive diagnoses. Those numbers highlight the need for more support for people with autism.