Professor Francesca Happé, an expert in autism from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London, says that historically research has mainly focused on men. This has shaped ...

F or many decades it was thought that men were very much more likely to be autistic than women. Some studies placed the ratio of autistic males to females as high as 16:1. In the last decade ...

WEST PALM BEACH — Baffled by the arrest of an autistic man over comments he made ... was bookended by several additional arrests of men and one woman accused of threatening Trump online.

Neurodiversity advocates have long argued that autistic brains are differently wired. Now, new evidence shows they are right. Researchers have found atypical numbers of brain cells in two key ...