The face of autism was once predominantly white. No longer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last year that the prevalence of autism across all racial and ethnic groups is ...

Srinivasan is a Ph.D. Neuroscience Student at Vanderbilt, an alum of UC Berkeley, a PD Soros Fellow, a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project, a Fellow at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, ...

A well-established psychological theory states that most of us are less likely to intervene in a bad situation if other people are present, and this 'bystander effect' also applies to workplace ...

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 ...

Dr. TC Waisman (left) and Patrick Dwyer (right) are two autistic researchers studying autism. Courtesy of Dr. TC Waisman and Patrick Dwyer For many decades, autistic people have been defined by ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses the recent surge of autism cases in a news conference. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Autism experts say the neurological conditon’s definition and diagnosis have changed over the years, and autism awareness and access to screening have improved, all contributing to autism’s rising ...

The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are leery of the new initiative, which they say is rushed and skirts typical ...

Ms. May is a writer and the mother of a child with autism. When I tell strangers that my daughter is autistic, their questions are often so far from my reality, it’s painful. Does she have a unique ...

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said his agency has launched the Autism Data Science Initiative to “turbocharge” autism research ...

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...