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

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

Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

Common signs of autism include trouble with social communication and a fixation on certain routines or topics — Nelson says ...

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

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

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers investigated the association between maternal autistic traits and the risk of adverse birth outcomes in the general population.

ElliQ is an empathetic care companion designed for older adults aging independently at home. (Image courtesy of Intuition Robotics) A large-scale longitudinal study published in The Gerontologist has ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated whether autistic characteristics affected the strength of color-shape associations (CSAs) based on the binding errors (BEs) ...

Entrepreneur Natasha Nelson always knew she was different. The 35-year old from Stone Mountain, Georgia, struggled with establishing social norms. She found small talk difficult, and couldn’t ...