New research identifies four presentations of autism based on genetics, behaviors and the ages when symptoms first appeared.

Autism is an inherently complex condition, but new research breaks it down into four distinct categories, each defined by a ...

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

More than 70 genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental condition in which differences in the brain lead to a host of altered behaviors, including issues with language, ...

A major new review has put hundreds of alternative autism treatments under the microscope—and most didn’t hold up. Scientists ...