A new program here in Arkansas aims to improve the communication between law enforcement and people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness or autism.

A new study on how U.S. defense attorneys think about autism and use strategies informed by neurodiversity in their work ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

Many autistic people face challenges in their daily life while navigating a world made for neurotypical people.

On "What's Health," an neurologist explains autism as a neurotype with strengths and challenges. Then, a physician-scientist ...

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

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

DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. is on the spectrum and has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), his attorneys revealed in ...

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions.