A major autism research journal is moving away from using a puzzle piece as a symbol of the developmental disorder months after a study found the imagery evokes negative connotations.

Symbols play a crucial role in defining, expressing, and uniting communities. For the autism community the puzzle piece has long been associated with the community. Its origins can be traced back to ...

To many autistic people, the puzzle piece represents stigma, exclusion and a harmful push to make them conform.

A major international study from the Autism Sequencing Consortium with participation of researchers from the Danish iPSYCH psychiatry project, has recently mapped 102 new autism genes.