With her blond hair often gathered into space buns, Kaelynn Partlow is quick-smiling and earnest on social media as she talks ...

Doctronic reports that late autism diagnoses in adults are rising, offering critical self-understanding and access to ...

In elementary school, Ariel sat alone at a desk in the closet. She could see the class through a two-way mirror, but no one could see her. She doesn’t remember if it was a punishment, but she ...

A young woman named Zoe Grace took to TikTok to share the 11 signs of her autism that were missed when she was a child.

People with autism may be up to six times more likely to develop Parkinson's disease in later life. New research offers a potential explanation based on the role of transporter molecules that recycle ...

A rare disorder called myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) causes weakness and muscle loss that gets progressively worse. Patients with DM1 are about 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism ...

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 ...

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people with autism. Rather than viewing autism as a deficit, he sees it as a ...

Autism is not an illness that needs to be cured. It is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how a person communicates, ...