On Nov. 21, 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced it had approved awarding $29.7 million to…
On Oct. 17, 2024, Geisinger announced results of a study that showed increased risk for autism appears to…
On Oct. 14, 2024, researchers have found a link between two human-specific genes and the gene SYNGAP1, a…
On Sept. 23, 2024, researchers from Columbia University reported that a study of Children born during the first…
On Aug. 30, 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) approved $67.5 million to support five projects…
On Jul. 2, 2024, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have uncovered a brain circuit in…
On Jun. 17, 2023, the Mississippi man known as “Case 1,” the first person to be diagnosed with…
On May 18, 2020, the NIH reported that roughly 3 to 5% of children with an aunt or…
On Apr. 3, 2020, a new study in Neuron offers clues to why autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is…
On Mar. 16, 2020, new insights into the architecture of the brain were revealed by scientists at the…
On Jan. 19, 2016, the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced…
In 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders merged three of the…
On Feb. 12, 2009, the Vaccine Court ruled that MMR vaccine, when administered with thimerosal-containing vaccines, does not…
On Dec. 18, 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) shines a bright light on autism as a growing…
On Sept. 26, 2006, the Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the completion of the groundbreaking Allen Brain…
On Feb. 11, 2005, Autism Speaks was founded in New York City by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents…
On Jun. 26, 2004, the 8th and final report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee was issued by…
On May 1, 2003, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published, allowing…
In 1995, autistic activist Temple Grandin published Thinking in Pictures: My Life Temple Grandin with Autism, considered a…
In 1994, the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders listed four subcategories within…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
In 1970, the term ‘developmental disability’ is introduced in the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities construction amendments to…
In 1967, Clara Claiborne Park, an American college English teacher, published one of the first parent memoirs about…
In 1965, the National Society for Autistic Children (later renamed the Autism Society of America) was founded by…
In 1964, Bernard Rimland, a research psychologist and father of a son with Rimland, published Infantile Autism, a…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘autism,’ borrowing from the Eugen Bleuler Greek word ‘autos’…