Many women, men with autism harm themselves
Adults with autism, particularly women, deliberately hurt themselves much more often than other adults do.
Adults with autism, particularly women, deliberately hurt themselves much more often than other adults do.
Restaurants can be stressful for my daughter Frances, who has autism, but her difficulties led me to try to better understand and treat her type of situational anxiety.
A brain circuit that wires lone mice to seek out social contact may offer clues about autism.
A woman claims that a genetic test failed to flag her son’s deadly condition, a researcher wins a rare appeal of a rejected grant application, and a graduate student’s gadget could help people with autism to read emotions.
Helping children with autism cope with the unexpected may ease some of their symptoms.
Autism and anorexia may seem to have nothing in common, but below the surface, the two conditions are startlingly similar—and sometimes affect the same person.
An unprecedented look at the activity of 223 individual neurons in the amygdala calls into question the longstanding idea that the region recognizes eye contact.
An app designed for Google Glass aims to help children with autism recognize emotions, and Sesame Street introduces its first muppet with autism
People with autism feel overly embarrassed for other people, offering a clue to why they struggle with empathy.
Children with autism often have difficulty recognizing faces and interpreting emotional expressions. And those who struggle most with this tend to have more severe autism symptoms later on, suggests a new study.