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Researchers who've spent years deciphering autism say RFK Jr.'s debunked claims about the disorder may undermine decades of science into a complex condition that affects millions of children.

Autism rates have soared. This doctor says he knows part of the reason why NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, ...

More boys and men have traditionally been diagnosed with autism than girls and women. That’s because researchers have mostly studied males, and symptoms vary by gender, cognitive neuroimaging ...

Atypical sensory-based behaviors are a ubiquitous feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). In this article, we review the neural underpinnings of sensory processing in autism by reviewing the ...

Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said of people with autism. “These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job.

Here’s what autism isn’t, Gross says – something to be scared of or pity. “In truth, autism is just a neutral fact about us, it’s not necessarily a good or a bad thing,” she says.

In his remarks, RFK Jr. said that children diagnosed with autism are “suffering,” claiming they will never work, find love, write a poem, play baseball, and many will never "use a toilet ...

Pinpointing the cause of autism has proven difficult, in part because it’s a complex group of developmental disorders and not a single condition. Now, an international team of researchers says ...

CATHY WURZER: One in 16 Somali Minnesota four-year-olds has autism. That's compared with one in 53 of their classmates. The data comes from a 2023 Centers for Disease Control autism survey from ...

The brainwave-reading technology of EEG helps monitor people with epilepsy and can detect when we're dozing off behind the wheel in a simulator. As scientists mark the 100th anniversary of EEG ...