Researchers found that autistic and non-autistic people move their faces differently when expressing emotions like anger, happiness, and sadness. Autistic participants tended to rely on different ...

Autism has long been thought of as a condition that mostly affects boys, but a massive study from Sweden suggests that idea may be misleading. Tracking nearly 3 million people over decades, ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

ATLANTA — The Marcus Autism Center announced it will conduct the largest study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children across the autism spectrum following a $21.9 million grant from the ...

New research challenged the longstanding belief that autism is much more common in males versus females. In a Swedish study of 2.7 million people, male-to-female ratios in autism diagnoses were nearly ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, boys are about three times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than girls are. Scientists have sought an answer as to why that ...