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

Childhood immunizations are essential for protecting against infectious diseases, disability and death. With developing ...

New numbers show that autism affects one in 59 children. More children are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

The global prevalence and rank of nonfatal burden of autism spectrum disorder are high, according to a review published online Dec. 19 in The Lancet Psychiatry. Damian Santomauro, Ph.D., from the ...

Dr. Robert Naviaux, a professor of medicine, pediatrics and pathology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the study’s lead ...

A study published in Psychiatry Research identifies a link between maternal cannabis use disorder and an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Study: Exposure to maternal cannabis use ...

Geschwind's study on autism, one of nine published in the May 24 issue of Science, builds on decades of his group's research profiling the genes that increase the susceptibility to autism spectrum ...

People who learn they have autism after age 6 — the current median age at diagnosis — are often described as having a “milder” form of autism than people diagnosed as toddlers. A new study challenges ...

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) often lose access to specialized ...

WASHINGTON- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that toxins in the environment contribute to autism with a series of new studies to investigate the issue as scientists ...