Definitive, compelling research on autism should drive significant changes in Washington state’s approach to this medical condition. The autism task force, created by the Legislature two years ago, ...

The finding may lay down framework for developing new treatments, even for very different types of the disorder. Classic autism is described by 3 cardinal characteristics: loss of language and ...

Autism spectrum disorder is complex; it presents differently in different patients, and the causes are still unclear, even though hundreds of small changes in gene sequences have been linked to an ...

New research shows autism rates in women may match men by adulthood, revealing diagnostic bias and the urgent need to update ...

A map has revealed America's autism hotspots for the first time. Rates of the disorder have nearly tripled in children and young adults in the last decade, which is in part due to doctors being better ...

Scientists mapped groups of autism-risk genes by function, and identified how mutations in these genes disrupt fetal brain development. Their findings prioritize targets for future research and shed ...

Perhaps no other analogy has done as much to illustrate brain function as the now-famous 1987 public service announcement aimed at reducing narcotics use. But Dr. Rajesh Kana, associate professor in ...

Brain maps of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show different levels of connectivity between parts of the brain compared with typical individuals, scientists report. Brain maps of people ...