Autism News

Only really long time readers will remember this, but back in the day , I discovered Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his antivaccine nuttery when he published his epically bad piece of antivaccine conspiracy mongering, Deadly Immunity, both in Salon.com and Rolling Stone .

Throughout our lives, our brains adapt to what we learn and memorise. The brain is indeed made up of complex networks of neurons and synapses that are constantly re-configured.

The percentage of Arizona kindergartners not getting vaccinated went up yet again this year.

Jenny McCarthy said her 12-year-old son, Evan, is being bullied at summer camp but doesn't realize it, People reported Monday.

In Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol. 31, No. 1. , pp. 5-17, doi:10.1023/a%3a1005653411471 Currently there are no brief, self-administered instruments for measuring the degree to which an adult with normal intelligence has the traits associated with the autistic spectrum.

The bulk of risk factors underlying autism may be based less on rare gene mutation than on common genetic variation, a new joint international study finds.

A new study provides the most definitive characterization of the autism-like intellectual disability disorder Christianson Syndrome and provides the first diagnostic criteria to help doctors and families identify and understand the condition.

The bulk of risk, or liability, for autism spectrum disorders was traced to inherited variations in the genetic code shared by many people.

The 40-year-old savant toured the autism-focused school in Ang Mo Kio at the end of a 10-day trip which has seen him paint a panorama of the city's skyline from memory.

As she begins their daily exercise of going through sheets of sounds and words for the 5-year-old boy to pronounce, she occasionally has to remind him to stay focused.

Robert Kennedy is obsessed with the notion that vaccines cause autism. He's particularly obsessed with the discredited idea that thimerosal, a preservative used in some vaccines, causes autism.

Expecting a child this summer? Most births in the U.S. occur in August, with July a close second.

When Tim Brewster was a kid, he often told his father about new, harebrained ideas.

A girl next to him wrapped a blue blanket more tightly around her thin frame and fiddled with a chain of plastic stars.

NASA faked the moon landing. The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. Climate change isn't real.

Marcus Sakey's thrillers have been nominated for more than fifteen awards, named New York Times Editor's Picks, and selected among Esquire's Top 5 Books of The Year.

"I just have to learn to distance myself a little more," the 19-year-old from Sewickley said.

When it comes to what's an allowable claim in the realm of cognitive health, ignorance and confusion abound, experts say.

One look at a panoramic cityscape is all it takes for the image to be etched in British artist Stephen Wiltshire's memory for the rest of his life.

So, so tired of seeing children dying of measles. Our measles ward has overflowed and using an additional 15 beds.