Even as a practitioner who works with autistic women, and as an autistic woman myself, understanding what exactly autism spectrum disorder is can be difficult. We tend to think of spectrums in ...

There are several hypotheses for the symptoms experienced by those with autism, with researchers suggesting that social deficits are correlated to dysfunction within the reward pathway.

The reward for the safe return of a missing New York City teen with autism, Avonte Oquendo, has been raised to $70,000, thanks to an anonymous donation through Autism Speaks, according to a ...

The study, which will be published July 17 in Brain, documented deficits in children with autism in a crucial reward circuit, called the mesolimbic reward pathway, that's buried deep within the brain.

In autism, brain regions tailored to respond to voices are poorly connected to reward-processing circuits, according to a new study. In autism, brain regions tailored to respond to voices are ...

With the extremely large number of apps available for iPads, even those for autism are in abundance, and experts say it’s important to know which are most effective for students with different needs.