More than one in 100 people are believed to be autistic. Here we look at what it is, how it is medically diagnosed and how it can make people feel.

Andrew Cashin receives funding from the Australian Government National Disability Insurance Agency Information Linkages and Capacity Building Grant Scheme Grant number 4-DW65XKD. This is a mainstream ...

Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a complex developmental condition that affects communication, social ...

With national increased prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder comes great local need for resources in Southwest Florida.

Clinicians and researchers continue to push back on unsupported claims about the causes of autism while new NIH projects aim to clarify its complex origins.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided this guide on autism spectrum disorder as part of a series of ...

The new research reinforces how complex the neurodevelopmental disorder is and that there isn’t a single cause.

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sometimes occur together. While FXS is a known genetic cause of ASD, not everyone who receives an FXS diagnosis is autistic, and not all ...

Leucovorin, a.k.a. folinic acid, is “an ‘activated’ form of folic acid—vitamin B9,” says Jamie Alan, Ph.D., an associate ...

Among a small cohort of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, a 12-week course of memantine led to improved ...