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

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

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 ...

The nonprofit CM Performing Arts Center, in Oakdale, is launching a new program that uses theater to help children with ...

New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Autism therapy centers offer services like applied behavior analysis (ABA), in which positive reinforcement is used to help ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

The initiative grows out of repeated incidents in which children went missing, a behavior social workers say is common among children on the autism spectrum ...

As autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders and because of the elusive pathophysiology ...