autism

Tabatha Southey: Lisa MacLeod and Doug Ford are are in the running for most offensive take on children with autism. Call it a draw?

Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel says brain imaging shows talk therapy can change brain biology—and even fight depression

How two women transformed their tiny Newfoundland community from a zero-resources town to the best place in the country to raise kids on the spectrum

The author of ‘Cloud Atlas’ and ‘The Bone Clocks’ credits the autistic Higashida with helping him understand his own boy

A pair of tender new documentaries highlight how people with autism are so much more than society’s misconceptions, ascending into wizardry or falling into tragedy

A Q&A with an author about neurodiversity: the radically humane idea that people process the world in different ways, and there’s nothing wrong with that

Diagnosed with severe autism as a child, Barnett is now 15 and one of the world’s most promising physicists

Paul Wells on the next chapter in the amazing story of Jacob Barnett

Woman tells her neighbour to euthanize her autistic grandson

Are fecal transplants the next treatment for heart disease, Crohn’s and even autism?

How Andrew Wakefield’s bogus theory spawned a generation at risk

Researchers at the University of Guelph say they have developed the first vaccine that may treat some of the symptoms associated with autism.