Each case is different. Scientists have struggled to parse through the many ways autism can manifest, much less to link these ...

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct ...

In the telling of President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., autism in the U.S. has exploded in the past decades with seemingly no explanation. These … ...

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U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy ...

Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records to produce Kennedy's autism studies. Bhattacharya did not give details on how they would be ...

Autism is what’s known as a neurodevelopmental disorder, which means that the way the brain grows and develops, beginning in pregnancy, is different in people who will go on to have autism.

And when I was, in my generation today, the rate of autism was 1 in 10,000," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday in Indiana, announcing the new findings.

Autism is defined as "a complex developmental condition that affects communication, social interaction and behavior," says Christopher Banks, president and CEO of the Autism Society of America.