Some psychologists think the definition of autism has become too broad. They say a term that encompasses people at all points on the cognitive curve is so broad as to be useless. That is the essence ...

The definition of autism may have become so broad that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL professor Dame Uta Frith, whose pioneering research in the 1960s ...

Thinking about autism has evolved. Just three decades ago, autism was a relatively rare and clearly defined condition, diagnosed in people with limited verbal language and highly repetitive behavior.

For decades, scientists studied autism mostly in boys, meaning many girls grew up without answers. But as research catches up ...

Autistic people often experience difficulties with social communication. It's so common, in fact, that it's one of the central criteria for an autism diagnosis. For as long as we have been diagnosing ...

The proposed change to the newest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM5, would do away with the diagnoses of Asperger’s ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Entrepreneur Natasha Nelson always knew she was different. The 35-year old from Stone Mountain, Georgia, struggled with ...

IFLScience spoke to Dame Uta Frith, who has studied autism for 60 years and whose belief that a radical change in diagnosis is needed garnered widespread pushback recently.

Columbia researchers estimate autism life expectancy on Medicaid at about 65 years, with excess deaths from flu, malnutrition ...

PORT MARIA, St Mary — When Tabika Bowerbank’s four-year-old son Mali was diagnosed with autism in 2020, she felt as if her ...

Late at night, when I’m alone, I sometimes ponder what it means to be autistic. Do I experience sounds and smells differently from an allistic (non autistic) person? Scientific studies suggest I do.