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

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

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

The autism advocacy community is split over whether adding a profound autism subtype will help the most vulnerable autistic people. Since 2013 autism diagnoses have been classified under one large ...

It’s been more than three years since the Lancet Commission proposed the new term “profound autism” to describe the subset of the autism spectrum most disabled by the disorder. This label has been ...

Autism has always been described as a spectrum, but for families, doctors, and educators, that word often feels too vague. It ...

Biological heterogeneity in autism can illuminate precision psychiatry and improve insights from primate brain mapping data.

This report is based on a recent in-depth article by the BBC, which examined how modern genetics is transforming scientific understanding of autism and reigniting debates within the autistic community ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- For years, April has been designated Autism Awareness Month. But that's changed this year. Now, April is now called Autism Acceptance Month -- a small but rather profound change. To ...