Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Autism spectrum disorders are heterogeneous in nature with idiopathic and genetic origins. We present a 7-year-old boy with a long history of multiple behavioral concerns, poor school performance, ...

Mutations in FMR1, the gene encoding fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 (FMRP), located at Xq27.3 and discovered in 1991, are the leading single-gene causes of autism and intellectual disability.

When most people hear the word “spectrum”, they may picture a straight line, like colours arranged from red to violet.

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sometimes occur together. While FXS is a known genetic cause of ASD, not everyone who receives an FXS diagnosis is autistic, and not all ...

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by impairments in social ...

A wider public conversation has arisen over whether it's time for a shift in how we think about categories of autism, amid ...