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There is no significant difference in the effectiveness of how autistic and non-autistic people communicate, according to a new study, challenging the stereotype that autistic people struggle to ...

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This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

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When I was 12, my parents brought me to the Children’s National Hospital in D.C. for two days of testing. I was socially ...

A decades-old challenge in neuroscience has been solved by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the electrical signatures of different types of brain cells for the first time, as part ...