Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it’s the severity of autism-like traits that seems to shape how the brain ...

Today, we recognize Americans with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), whose talents, character, and determination strengthen our Nation and enrich our communities. Every child is made in the image and ...

Indiana is barring one of the nation’s most expensive autism-therapy providers from billing the state’s Medicaid program two weeks after the company’s practices were detailed in a Wall Street Journal ...

Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism ...

With four Cleveland West Conference awards, Rocky River took them all. On March 9, the CWC announced that Rocky River’s Elizabeth Lang (CWC Player of the Year), Nora Bruder (CWC Offensive Player of ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break ...

Autism masking involves consciously or unconsciously suppressing natural autistic traits, often to avoid stigma or fit in socially. While masking may provide short-term benefits in certain social ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...

I can say from personal experience that being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can feel very isolating. Increasingly, however, it’s not unusual. In the U.S., 1 in 31 children are diagnosed with ...

New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that autism should not be understood as a homogeneous condition with a single cause. Scientists found that people diagnosed in early childhood ...

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...