Autism News

The Nw York City Health Department is investigating an outbreak of measles in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, after seven adults and nine children were diagnosed with the highly contagious infection.

Leonard Abbeduto, director of the UC Davis MIND Institute, announced that with the coveted designation as an Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, "We also become part of a network of 14 other centers that collaborate beyond what one center can do on its own."

Community Access Unlimited this past weekend staged a very special production, "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," a play written by a young man with Asperger's syndrome, a component of the autistic spectrum.

Since the late 1990s, doctors and public health officials have been battling the belief , fueled by a discredited study , that vaccines can cause autism.

Watching her daughter struggle to get through the day, one Westman mother is slowly being broken by the very system designed to protect them.

Social workers that provide therapeutic and other services to children and adolescents can expect to find some major changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition : in their placement within the DSM-5 , the conceptualization of the disorders, the criteria for the disorders, the elimination of disorders, and the ... (more)

Northampton Area High School sophomore Amanda Strohl, left, 15, of Bath, and Freedom High School senior Brittany Sloss, right, 18, of Bethlehem Township, Pa., unveil a painting during a presentation at the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School on March 5, 2014.

The CDC defines health communication as "The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual decisions that enhance health."

Cultural production of ignorance provides rich field for study. 'Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, is one of the world's leading experts in agnotology , a neologism signifying the study of the cultural production of ignorance.

With as many as 1.5 million Americans having some form of autism, including milder variants such as what used to be called Asperger Syndrome, many of those on the autism spectrum are also parents.

Close, for a quilting/sewing bee taking in '50s rock classics as they stitched away at the Olive Branch Senior Center.

Scandi-drama The Bridge is known as much for the personal life of Swedish detective Saga Noren and her Danish colleague Martin Rohde as for its gritty monochrome crime scenes.

Ben Kirimli, 27, of Bexhill Road, St Leonards, spent seven days on the expedition, collecting more than A 2,000 for Autism Sussex.

The most common form of intellectual disability is caused by a mechanism which shuts of an associated gene, a new study finds.

In spite of misinformation, vaccines remain a safe, scientifically proven way to prevent disease, according to Dr. Margaret O'Dell.

Spaulding Rehab Hospital Cape Cod presents a free "Mondays in March" pediatric educational lecture series for parents, health professionals, educators and caregivers of young children.

Headlight Photo Jazlynn Eberling, 14, does her beadwork in preparation for the 49th annual Rockhound Round Up this weekend at the Southwestern New Mexico State Fairgrounds.

Dustin Hoffman, working alongside a 26-year-old Tom Cruise, won an Oscar for his role as an autistic savant in "Rain Man," from 1988.

I'm not her! Student with same name as 'spoiled' teen suing her parents is hit by internet trolls - but she uses opportunity to drum up support for charity USF student Rachel Canning received a barrage of hateful comments because she shares her name with New Jersey student suing her parents After receiving more than 30,000 visitors to her Facebook ... (more)

Elaine Hsiao is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biology at Caltech. She is currently studying the mechanisms by which microbes modulate host production of neuroactive molecules and aims to better understand how the human microbiota influences health and disease.