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 ...

When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s ...

By analyzing over 213,000 developing human brain cells, researchers show that many autism risk genes act through the ECM.

Autism has long been known as a spectrum, signifying a wide range of symptoms and severity. Now, new research suggests that ...

Scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Las Vegas Nevada (UNLV) have uncovered a genetic link between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a rare genetic condition ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism’s cause — a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades — ...

Scientists look to DNA from Middle Eastern families to solve the autism mystery. July 10, 2008— -- WASHINGTON (AP) - Harvard researchers have discovered half adozen new genes involved in autism ...

“…the precipitating factor in infantile autism is the parent’s wish that his child should not exist.” That may sound outrageous, but when the famous child ...

Genes located in a large chromosomal aberration associated with autism interact with each other to modulate the variable symptoms of the disease, according to new research. A collaborative team led by ...

A model of a DNA molecule is displayed in the New York office of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in 1962. (Anthony Camerano / Associated Press) Earlier this year, Health and Human ...