Young adults on the autism spectrum face tough prospects for jobs and independent living

The Autism Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, is a questionnaire published in 2001 by Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, UK. Consisting of fifty questions, ...

Gene mutations that cause cell signaling networks to go awry during embryonic development and lead to major birth defects may ...read more

There is a saying in the startup community that says, "fail hard, and fail often." The idea is to look ...read more

The romantic notion that mental illness and creativity are linked is so prominent in the public consciousness that it is ...read more

A conversation with Kim Weild about her new collaboration at Arizona State University on Charles Mee's's soot and spit, a ...read more

Women who experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as children are more likely to have a child with autism than ...read more

Children with Asperger’s Syndrome have different electroencephalography (EEG) patterns to children with autism, reveals a new study. With distinct neurophysiology, ...read more

Scientists have decoded an important molecular signal that guides the development of a key region of the brain known as ...read more

Researchers have developed a new screening and tracking tool for diagnosing autism. The method holds promise as a method to ...read more

Dennis O'Leary was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of ...read more