For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

It is a common stereotype that autistic people do not have empathy. This stereotype is false and not backed up by the latest ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

Autism, which is referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

SAP not the only company committing to hire more autistic employees. Autism made it hard for Phillip Griffin, 22, to find a job, but now he works at a software company in Illinois. Courtesy Autonomy ...

Dasgupta is the author of “Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins” and a professor of medicine at Boston University. President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A new program in Arkansas aims to make traffic stops safer for people with autism and mental illness ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism by September, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a ...