She went into what she now sees as an autistic shutdown, a state of numbness where she could barely speak, and over the next two years crippling anxiety and detailed suicidal thoughts pushed her ...

Research indicates that there is a high degree of overlap between fearful attachment and symptoms of autism. Here’s what you ...

And by manipulating neurotransmitters to temporarily shut down the amygdala altogether, the researcher can make food invoke no emotional response whatsoever, he says. The latter, in effect, mimics the ...

Experts are learning that the two conditions – known as AuDHD – often go hand-in-hand, leading to a brain in a constant tug ...

which may result in the autistic student experiencing an explosion: frustration, aggressive panic attack (melt down: fight) or implosion: may not seem themselves, struggles to engage/communicate, ...

For years the treatment of autism has been dominated by a single treatment modality called applied behavioral analysis (ABA). ABA is a treatment modality that was designed for children in the ...

Members of The Sixth Sense Collective believe their performance of Irish playwright Jody O’Neill’s “What I (don’t) know about ...

“So I just shut down,” she says ... But one email – from the National Autistic Society – stands out. They ask: does Holly realise that Harriet is autistic? “I’m like, 'How dare ...

Compliance officers can learn a lot from small businesses, and today we have a fascinating example of that point from the ...

(CBS DETROIT) — The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential is suspending and intending to ...