Updated February 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM ET Melody O'Connor is grateful her teenage daughter Angeleena O'Connor was arrested in the winter of 2022. "Isn't that a horrible thing to say?" Melody said. It ...

After some very disturbing shootings involving individuals who reportedly had been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, there has been increased attention to the possible link between autism ...

BY DR. PANCHAJANYA PAUL, MD* Autism is increasingly common, affecting about one in 31 children in the United States.

This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without ...

Autistic people are more likely to report suicide-related behaviors and psychological distress irrespective of previous traumatic experiences, according to new research from the University of ...