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 ...

Without clear and effective biological tests for autism based on genes, brain or blood measurements, diagnosis today still ...

Susan Senator is the author of numerous autism books; her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, among others.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton's masterpiece is strangely modern. Although ...