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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Reports of a new federal plan to study whether there’s a link between vaccines and autism could serve as an early test of the commitments Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he received from Robert F.

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Some psychiatrists may refer you to a psychologist, who can give you a standardized diagnostic autism test or will use their own clinical judgment. There is no brain scan or blood test for autism.