Researchers Dr. Yuval Hart and Oded Wertheimer from the Psychology department and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science (ELSC) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the clinical name for the condition most people refer to as autism. Autism is defined as "a ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

About 2% of the world's adults have autism spectrum disorder. And many people recently have come to the realization that they're autistic as adults, some sharing their stories about their diagnosis or ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism by the time they were 8 years old, researchers ...

Background: Previous reports have suggested that the incidence of psychotic disorders has either been stable or decreasing over time in high-income countries, but overall trends may not capture birth ...

A new study suggests autism diagnosis rates are "more or less equal for men and women," significantly challenging long-held ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Large-scale Swedish data reveal a female “catch-up” effect in autism diagnoses, reshaping ...