When most people hear the word “spectrum”, they may picture a straight line, like colours arranged from red to violet.

LONDON (Reuters) - Children exposed to antidepressants during their mothers' pregnancies seem to have a slightly higher risk of autism than children whose mothers had psychiatric disorders but did not ...

WASHINGTON — People with Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, dramatically improve their social learning skills and spend more time gazing at pictures of faces after inhaling a whiff of the ...

The most rigorous review so far found that there is no evidence that paracetamol (Tylenol) use in pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disabilities.

Having cared for children in my practice for over 25 years, I have found a grand disparity between how we profess to safeguard our children’s future and how we actually care for them. Cliches like ...

A 2024 study of autism screening included an important finding: Pediatric clinicians who use a standardized screening tool are more likely to flag toddlers as potentially autistic. However, the ...

"It's as definitive as we're going to get," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder said of the new research, which ...

SAN DIEGO — When Rebecca Bertheola noticed her son George had stopped saying "mama" and other words around his second birthday, she found herself caught between denial and growing concern. "We were on ...

Edwin Stein Edwin Stein working at the ad-insert machine at the Concord Monitor. When Ed Stein passed away in July after a long and happy life that was colored but not constrained by mild autism, his ...

Professor Nicole Rinehart, who has worked as a clinical psychologist for the last 20 years and is based out of Australia, says that having an 'odd gait' is now listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical ...

A 2024 study of autism screening included an important finding: Pediatric clinicians who use a standardized screening tool are more likely to flag toddlers as potentially autistic. However, the ...