A new study by McGill University researchers yields insights into how the disruption of calcium transport in the brain is linked to autism and intellectual disability.

By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting ...

The Trump administration could’ve chosen anyone to conduct a study on vaccines and autism. It settled on someone who's ...

What if autism is not becoming more common at all? What if the rise in diagnoses is a good thing? As a scientist with autism, ...

1905 is referred to as the “miracle year” by physicists. In that one year, Albert Einstein published four papers that laid the foundations of modern physics. One of the major breakthroughs ...

About one in 20 schoolchildren are being diagnosed with autism, a threefold increase in less than a decade, Department of Education figures show. The growing incidence is placing strain on the ...

My personal concern about the overdiagnosis trend in autism, is the effect that overdiagnosis seems to be having on the adults with severe autism like those I look after.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing to study whether vaccines are linked to autism—despite overwhelming scientific evidence showing no connection. The study ...

Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas. By Emily ...

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