Last month’s annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) was one of its biggest gatherings to date. It also saw an increase in presentations focused on basic science, according to Christine Wu Nordahl, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute and scientific chair for this […]
Autism comes with a stereotype: shy, awkward, obsessed with tech, decidedly male. It’s an image that erases the many girls and women who are autistic, but it also reflects the reality that far more boys than girls have a diagnosis. Several studies put that sex ratio at about 3 to 1; among psychiatric conditions, only […]
