As diagnoses among the Black community continue to rise, Mattel has released a new Barbie celebrating autism. There’s a new ...

Barbie’s new Fashionista autistic doll marks a major step toward representation, with local autism advocates explaining its ...

Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic ...

If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning disability. But being autistic doesn't mean ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of the apparent increase in childhood autism cases in Denmark between 1980 and 2011 may be due to changes in how those cases are reported, according to a new ...