As screening and understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) grows, a new national initiative tapping Drexel expertise ...

Autistic children and adults may be experiencing PTSD at higher rates than official diagnoses suggest, with their symptoms ...

Mental health conditions are common among autistic adults, with 50% of autistic adults having a co-occurring condition, like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

Experts share symptoms of autism in adults, including social communication challenges, repetitive behaviors, difficulty ...

The research team was surprised to find that in autistic adults, women had greater rates and odds of readmission than autistic men. "This is the opposite of what is seen in non-autistic populations, ...

Researchers found that after discharge from the hospitalization, almost 1 in 5 autistic adults were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of the initial admission. Readmission was also more common ...

One in five teens and young adults who seek treatment for alcohol or drug use may have traits characteristic of a previously unrecognized autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers at Massachusetts ...

Conducted through interpretive phenomenological analysis, the study involved one-to-one, semi-structured interviews with 10 participants. Each participant recounted unnoticed autistic traits from ...