A group of researchers from the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento, together with ...

Severe autism is considered level 3 on the spectrum, as it profoundly impacts an individual’s behavior and social life. Learn ...

A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience, like being cut off in traffic, and responds with an ...

A board game through which players use images on cards to develop and tell their own stories could be particularly ...

Michael Wayne O’Neill, the beloved sportswriter and Enquirer-Journal reporter, is a living contradiction to Health and Human ...

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We not only observe other people's emotions, but also subconsciously mirror them." But not everyone finds this easy to do. "People with autism or social anxiety find it harder to understand the ...

Since autism was first described in the 1940s, it’s been assumed that a key feature of the condition is a blunted emotional response or an inability to describe emotions.

Teaching emotions has been part of autism curriculums for decades. I remember dated flashcards with pictures of faces and asking students to identify which emotion was being expressed on the card ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of developmental disorders that can affect how someone communicates and interacts with the world. A person with ASD may find it difficult to regulate ...

Her mother brought her to doctors who gave Hammond a prescription for Paxil and a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome, which, at the time, was recognized as an autism-related disorder that affects ...