The clinical intersection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and psychosis in young people constitutes one of the most complex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a ...

They also face more disadvantages in multiple social determinants of health such as poverty, food hardship, and lead exposure.

The Lurie Autism Institute presented its $100,000 award to Huda Zoghbi, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising molecular chain reaction in the brain that may play a role in some forms of autism.

New numbers show that autism affects one in 59 children. More children are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is linked to a fourfold increased risk for early-onset Parkinson’s disease (PD), results from the largest, population-based cohort study of its kind to date showed. The ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum ...

Erica Bacon is working on a special photography project called "Faces of Autism", where autistic individuals are photographed ...

Here's why the condition affects each person diagnosed with it so differently — plus how anyone with autism can thrive.