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Collins said he wants to end ‘manels’ and curb bias that keeps women and minorities from scientific leadership

Behavior problems may be explained by serotonin and bacteria in the bowels.

Parents in UK report feeling ‘isolated and helpless’ during wait for formal identification

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Autistic people have been overlooked too often because employers can't see past social skills. That is a big mistake

Four children with special educational needs explain why they no longer attend school.

Research confirms our deepest intuition: Human connection lies at the heart of human well-being.

The amygdala, a brain region that governs emotions, may be enlarged and overly connected in children with autism, but it shrinks as the children grow up.

When Laura was finally diagnosed with autism at the age of 26, her anorexia and OCD traits made a lot more sense.

Number of girls and women with the condition in UK may be vastly underestimated, leading neuroscientist says

Misdiagnosed, misunderstood or missed altogether, many women with autism struggle to get the help they need.

More than half of people on the spectrum have four to five other conditions. Which conditions, and how and when they appear, varies from one autistic person to the next.

Autistic and artistic, you can be both.

DI Warren Hines, of West Midlands Police, says his condition has helped make a success of his life and career

Autistic people have an elevated risk of homelessness, according to a new study.

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Researchers have successfully identified autism risk in young mice by examining their mother's microbiome during pregnancy. The study, which may offer the earliest detection of autism, could pave the...

Saffron is 9. When she received her diagnosis her mother Sam thought the doctors were describing an extraordinary child rather than someone with a disability.

Scientists have traced the development of budding zebrafish and frog embryos over the first 24 hours of life, down to the single cell.

People diagnosed with autism in adulthood describe growing up believing they were "bad" or "alien".

Women are two and a half times less likely to ask a question in departmental seminars than men, an observational study of 250 events at 35 academic institutions in 10 countries has found.   This

The UK’s leading expert on the condition said it was shocking nearly nine in 10 autistic people are unemployed

Older men and women are more likely than young ones to have a child with autism, but this connection is not straightforward.

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It’s loud, it’s crowded, it’s delayed because of an earlier incident. But to the minds of boys along the spectrum, it may be a paradise.

Kids who know how to deceive are smarter and better adjusted.

Prof Dame Sally Davies to step down to take up new role at Cambridge University college

With suicide the biggest killer of males under 45, Men’s Health spent months inside a south London academy to explore the mental-health crisis gripping our teens. Here are their stories of anxiety,...

Previous studies have shown that autistic people are dying far younger than others and that they are more likely to experience a range of physical health conditions. Until now, it was believed that

Two brothers on the autistic spectrum were looking for work when one had the idea of opening a comic shop. It turned out to be an inspired choice.

An old, cynical adage holds that ‘if all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. I remembered that aphorism while reading the new book by Simon Baron-Cohen, one of the world’s leading...

Architects are working with schools to create welcoming, versatile spaces for students on the spectrum.

Russian scholars restore faded notes kept by a Jew forced to work in the Auschwitz gas chambers.

A team of researchers, led by Dr Sarah Cassidy from the University of Nottingham and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, are the first to

A 10-year-old autistic girl has written about living with autism prompting praise from others with the condition

Genes are bigger contributors to autism features than are environmental factors, according to a study of nearly 39,000 twins.

In most spaces I feel like an outsider, and I have always had fewer friends and lasting connections than most

Background The poorer physical health of autistic adults compared to non-autistic adults has been highlighted by several epidemiological studies. However, research has so far been limited to specific...

The real reason most people don’t think I am autistic is because like me, they have had very little education about what autism actually is. Autism has received a lot of attention in the last decad…

BBC analysis of notices issued by coroners shows repeated failings in the care of autistic people.

Three Identical Strangers tells the story of triplets separated at birth and put up for adoption.

Prenatal exposure to elevated levels of male sex hormones may play a role in the development of autism, results of a new study suggest

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Children with autism who speak few or no words improve in their verbal abilities after their parents learn to engage them in conversation during play.