According to the organization, signs of autism usually present around ages 2-3. However, signs can be missed because autism ...

What if autism is not becoming more common at all? What if the rise in diagnoses is a good thing? As a scientist with autism, I believe the rise in diagnoses is the result of greater awareness, better ...

Surveys have shown that 70% of autistic adults experience difficulty falling or staying asleep, 90% experience poor sleep ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and its potential ... vaccines to neurological disorders, Kennedy cited Weldon, a then ...

None has found any evidence to suggest that vaccines increase the risk of autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders. “As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in ...

Autism spectrum disorder is defined by neurological and developmental effects for how people communicate, interact with others, learn and behave. Some people may show milder symptoms of autism ...

However, the identification of comorbid psychosis in patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder represents a complex challenge from a psychopathological point of view, in particular in patients with ...

Leo Kanner initially described ‘early infantile autism’ in a case series in 1943, naming the disorder on the basis of the ‘autistic aloneness’ that he observed in his patients (Kanner, 1943).

While genetic links to autism have been known for some time, scientists are now pinpointing the actual genes involved. However, ‘genetic disorders only account for a minority of cases’, says ...

She is one of the estimated 600,000 older Britons – many now pensioners – with autism. The condition, a developmental disorder which tends to appear in early childhood but is lifelong ...

In 2013, this term was replaced, and PDDs is no longer used. It’s now called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). “There were about five different diagnoses one could have [under a PDD diagnoses], ...

Purpose: To evaluate the yield of genetic testing in children with autism spectrum disorders. Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of 71 unrelated patients with a diagnosis of an ...