The runaway hit hockey romance gives us a different kind of autistic character, one created by an author and an actor with ...

Autistic masking may be an evolved survival response to social risk: useful for belonging, but costly when sustained over a ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

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

Stephen Shore, an autistic professor of special education at Adelphi University, has said: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” This quote is popular in the ...

Common signs of autism include trouble with social communication and a fixation on certain routines or topics — Nelson says ...

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers investigated the association between maternal autistic traits and the risk of adverse birth outcomes in the general population.

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.

ElliQ is an empathetic care companion designed for older adults aging independently at home. (Image courtesy of Intuition Robotics) A large-scale longitudinal study published in The Gerontologist has ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated whether autistic characteristics affected the strength of color-shape associations (CSAs) based on the binding errors (BEs) ...

Entrepreneur Natasha Nelson always knew she was different. The 35-year old from Stone Mountain, Georgia, struggled with establishing social norms. She found small talk difficult, and couldn’t ...