I recently attended my son's school parents' evening. Having attended his parents' evenings for the last 10 years, I knew what to expect. I'd hear about how well he did in class—how he was focused, ...

A new study published by a team of psychologists suggests that the diagnosis of autism could be improved by considering the differences between how women and men experience and act upon their emotions ...

On a first meeting in his office here at the University of Cambridge, Simon Baron-Cohen comes off as a poster boy for the empathetic scholar. He pulls a chair close, looks directly into his visitor’s ...

Autism has always been framed as a condition that mostly affects boys. Yet after tracking more than 2.7 million people born between 1985 and 2020, researchers found that while boys are diagnosed far ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Forty autistic men, including Jason Bunn-Parsons, are participating in a longitudinal study on autism and aging. Bunn-Parsons goes to Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in ...

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - APRIL 01: Participants from the group #AutismMatters march to the Western Cape Education Department to hand over a memorandum on April 01, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Compared with neurotypicals or non-autistic people, young autistic men and women face a significantly higher risk of being hospitalized because of mental illness. In a new study, researchers found ...

Autistic young men and women are more affected by psychiatric conditions and have an increased risk of being hospitalized as a result of their mental illness compared with non-autistic people.