Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...
When Donald Trump gave a press conference in late September urging pregnant women to avoid taking paracetamol unless medically necessary because of a possible link to autism, the reaction from the ...
1 in 36 8-year-old children in the U.S. were identified as having an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The prevalence of ASD ...
More children are getting diagnosed with autism than ever before. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to find out why. The Trump administration has already touted ...
Autism incidence in the U.S. has increased from 1 in 36 children in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April.The Get the Facts ...
People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...
In diagnosing autism – the developmental variant that affects around 80 million people worldwide – medical practitioners today put too much emphasis on a child's lack of sociability and not enough on ...
Since 2013, when the DSM-5 collapsed five autism subtypes into the single diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)," we've treated autism like a monolith. Maybe that made sense when our tools were ...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has long been the tool most often used to render a diagnosis of autism in the United States. The upcoming version of the DSM is ...