For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

A research team has unveiled the cause and molecular mechanism of chronic brain inflammation that results in repetitive behavioral disorders. The research team demonstrated that an inflammatory ...

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works.

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...