An increased prevalence of atypical psychosocial development is seen among very-low-birth-weight infants, but the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in this population is unknown. Limperopoulos ...

Infants have higher risk of developing autism if they have siblings with the disorder, a US study found Monday. The risk that an infant with an older sibling with autism also will develop the disorder ...

It has been over 50 years since Dr. Leo Kanner, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, wrote the first paper applying the term 'autism' to a group of children who were self-absorbed and who had ...

People suffering from autism might feel their surroundings differently than others from an early age, which might affect their process of development and learning. This finding was found in a new ...

It’s been eighteen years since I learned I am autistic. A lot has changed since then. Doctors once said, “There’s no cure for autism. You will always be the way you are.” For me, that was tempered ...

Eye-evasion in early years may indicate if a child is autistic. SCIENTISTS said on Wednesday they may have found the earliest signs yet of autism in infants – babies as young as two months starting to ...