Scientists have uncovered an unexpected connection between inflammation during pregnancy, placental damage, and autism-like ...

There has been a steep rise in the number of people labelled autistic over the last 20 years. Is that down to greater understanding – or overdiagnosis?

Professor David Skuse, Professor Eva Loth and Dr Damian Milton will discuss autism subtypes at a live event at New Scientist ...

AUTISM diagnoses have risen 10-fold in the last decade or so, prompting fears of ‘overdiagnosis’. But alongside the surge in ...

Rates of parkinsonism are substantially higher among adults with autism, even after accounting for medications that can cause Parkinson-like symptoms.

A new preclinical study shows that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) can lessen autism-like behavioral deficits in a rat model induced by neonatal maternal separation (NMS). The work combines behavioral ...

Why is adapting to changing environments challenging for autistic individuals? A new study shows that the autistic brain is ...

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A nationwide study of nearly 900,000 births found that exposure to wildfire smoke during the middle and later stages of ...

Chef Franklin Becker is mentoring young adults with autism for culinary careers. Learn more at an upcoming Cape Cod event.