Questions for Fruhling Rijsdijk: Tapping twins for autism
Studying large numbers of fraternal and identical twins may help tease apart genetic and environmental contributors to autism.
Studying large numbers of fraternal and identical twins may help tease apart genetic and environmental contributors to autism.
Scientists should phrase their findings to be sensitive to the dignity and needs of people with autism.
Journalists John Donvan and Caren Zucker detail autism’s transformation from a diagnosis shrouded in shame to an increasingly accepted, even celebrated, condition.
Employment is a crucial part of independent adult life, but many with autism struggle to find it.
People with autism are more than twice as likely as their peers to die prematurely.
It’s past time for mainstream discussions of ‘women with autism’ to recognize that a significant portion of the autistic community identifies as gender-queer or non-binary.
A $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health aims to help to make stem cell models of autism, and the ‘unaffected sibling’ of a girl with autism pledges to advance the field.
Some children shed the symptoms of autism and eventually lose their diagnosis. What sets them apart?
Steve Silberman’s new book, “Neurotribes,” recounts his 15-year quest to understand “the legacy of autism.”
Springer pulled 64 studies over faked peer reviews, and positive clinical trial results are hard to find.