Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people ...

What if everything we thought we knew about autistic communication was wrong? For decades, autism has been described through a lens of deficit. Communication differences were framed as “deficits.” ...

Autism spectrum disorders are characterised by pervasive differences in social communication, of which impaired face processing is both a hallmark and a barrier to everyday interaction. Individuals on ...

Three years ago, Edward Kang was sifting through research papers for ideas for a school project when he came across an intriguing study by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong that used ...

Modulation of the vasopressin pathway may be a promising new target for improving social and communication deficits in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new research suggests. Results from ...

Autism is a broad term for a range of developmental disorders. Some are mild, while others can be debilitating, making ...