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

Children on the autistic spectrum generally struggle to communicate with other children of a similar age. They might prefer to spend time alone, in their bedrooms, on their devices or pursuing ...

Even as a practitioner who works with autistic women, and as an autistic woman myself, understanding what exactly autism spectrum disorder is can be difficult. We tend to think of spectrums in terms ...

Do vaccines cause autism? Is it bad parenting? Can autism be cured? Experts bust common autism myths and explain how ...

The phrases “autism spectrum” or “on the spectrum” have become part of everyday language. They are often used as different ways of referring to someone who is “neurodivergent”. The term was coined in ...

According to a Rutgers study published earlier this year, autism rates in the US have increased some 500% over the past 16 years. But is the rise in autism really the result of better screening, or ...

In this exclusive MedPage Today video, two autistic physicians -- Stacy Greeter, MD, a psychiatrist in Florida, and Mary Doherty, MD, founder of Autistic Doctors International -- share their candid ...

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