Autism has long been known as a spectrum, signifying a wide range of symptoms and severity. Now, new research suggests that ...

Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD often share symptoms, including challenges with social situations, staying ...

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

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum — an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...

Dr. Robert Naviaux, a professor of medicine, pediatrics and pathology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the study’s lead author, estimated that 40-50% of autism cases could be prevented or ...

The theory was created in 1998, when British researcher Andrew Wakefield published studies that suggested the measles vaccine caused gastrointestinal problems and that those GI pr ...

A new study shows that the newspapers people read are strong predictors of their automatic, unconscious biases toward autism—even after accounting for age, education, political views, and personal ...

In 1987, a prominent University of California Los Angeles psychologist published the culmination of his life’s work — and spurred headlines across the globe. Ole Ivar Lovaas claimed that delivering a ...