Danish researcher Poul Thorsen pleaded guilty to stealing grant money awarded for autism research, but social media posts ...

Maternal health conditions during pregnancy were consistently associated with autism across racial and ethnic groups in a ...

ARPA-H launches SPECTRA autism research initiative ...

Could a grandfather’s health history hold clues about autism risk decades later? A new California study has found that grandchildren were more likely to receive an autism-spectrum-disorder diagnosis ...

Autism diagnoses have skyrocketed over the past few decades, prompting a debate among scientists. Is the biological rate of ...

Autism does not discriminate. It affects people of different races and ethnicities equally. But much of what scientists know about the genetics of autism comes from people of European descent, who ...

October 18, 2024—Autism research should focus less on discovering the condition’s causes and more on potential policies and resources that could support autistic people to lead healthy, fulfilling ...

Most public health institutions failed to respond promptly to misinformation on social media that falsely claimed ...

A major analysis suggests Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disorder closely linked to autism, may affect about 1 in 7,300 ...

A large Danish study found that children diagnosed with ADHD or autism today more closely resemble their peers in the general population than those diagnosed 10 years ago. The shift suggests that ...

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