The Lurie Autism Institute presented its $100,000 award to Huda Zoghbi, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s ...

Explore the latest findings in autism research that highlight the importance of brain tissue for understanding neurodevelopmental conditions.

A recent study published in Autism Research suggests that the cognitive shifts associated with autism are significantly larger in females than in males. The findings provide evidence that females may ...

Researchers have called for a radical change in the way society understands suicide and mental illness in autistic people, who are three to five times more likely to die by suicide.

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a contract for investigating the association between vaccines ...

Source: Released under the GFDL by en:User:TheBrain on 20 May 2003 For my first few posts on Psychology Today, I wanted to give an overview of the most popular theories about the brain basis of autism ...

The nation's top health agency will undertake a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Mr ...

Many scientists were pleased to learn that N.I.H. funding will go to leading experts examining complex new theories, not only fears over vaccines. By Benjamin Mueller In late May, when the Trump ...

Decades of research into autism has revealed this much: There is no simple answer for what causes the condition. In each person with autism, genes and their environment combined in a unique way, ...