While this condition has historically been thought to affect men and boys more often, new research shows otherwise.

Historically, researchers have thought that autism mostly affects boys and men. But is that truly because they have the neurodevelopmental condition more often than women, or could something be going ...

New research shows autism rates in women may match men by adulthood, revealing diagnostic bias and the urgent need to update ...

Autism has historically been viewed as a condition that affects men and boys more frequently than women and girls. But a massive new study based on data from millions of people suggests this isn't ...

Over more than 35 years of follow-up, 78,522 people were diagnosed with autism. This represented 2.8% of the study population, with the average age at diagnosis being 14.3 years.

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, ...

Autism rates across the country continue to climb, but for the first time, the demographics of children diagnosed with the developmental disability are starting to shift in a big way, according to new ...

A new study published reports that social deficits in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with early structural and connectivity traits particularly in the visual ...

Months after Trump administration officials hyped a drug as a possible treatment for autism symptoms, one of the largest studies examining its effectiveness in this population has been retracted.

When trusted voices like the CDC send mixed signals on vaccines, the ripple effects are immediate, three local doctors write. Families pause, delay or decline vaccines. And that allows the spread of ...

Among the many mysteries that befuddle autism researchers: why the disorder affects boys four times more often than girls. But in new findings reported online today by the journal Molecular Psychiatry ...