A team of researchers has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene reduces the effect of the hormone ...
For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...
The most tragic, and in some ways most mysterious, form of mental illness in children is infantile autism. Autistic* children live in a lonely and unbreakable trance. As babies, they seldom look into ...