What is autism and how did we come to understand it as a spectrum? A new book by QMUL researcher Dr Bonnie Evans uncovers the social history of autism, how it has come to define so many lives, and why ...

This program was originally broadcast on January 21, 2016. A big fresh take on autism that begins with Patient Zero. In researching their book, Caren Zucker and John Donvan tracked down Donald Gray ...

In a recent study published in the journal Autism Research, a group of researchers examined the association between family history of neurodevelopmental (NDD) and neuropsychiatric (NPD) disorders and ...

Findings from a new autism study suggest that changes in the brain in early infancy may predict diagnosis at age 2 in children who have higher odds of autism because an older sibling is autistic. The ...

1943: Based on a study of 11 socially withdrawn children, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner identifies autism as "lack of affective contact, fascination with objects, desire for sameness and ...

The number of people with the condition has increased rapidly in recent decades. Some researchers and clinicians worry that ...

Autism Awareness Day, observed annually on April 2nd, is a day dedicated to raising awareness about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), promoting acceptance, and fostering a deeper understanding of those ...

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These claims ...