New research provides a potential brain-based explanation for social touch aversion in some forms of autism. A study published in Nature Communications finds that in a mouse model of Fragile X ...

Opportunities to save a 31-year-old autistic man with learning disabilities were missed, and his death was entirely preventable, a coroner ruled. | ITV National News ...

Law enforcement officers are on the frontlines of a “revolving door” mental health crisis that they feel ill-equipped to handle.

A researcher from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute is part of an international group that recently published a ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute is part of an international group that recently published a ...

Autistic people show much more personal variability in the length and speed of their strides, as well as their walking speed.

As the first generation diagnosed with autism under modern criteria enters middle and older adulthood, psychiatry faces a demographic shift. Although early intervention for children has improved, ...