What's in a label? Everything, advocacy groups say. May 25, 2011— -- Eileen Parker was 41 years old when she discovered her quirky, misunderstood behavior had a name: Asperger's. The syndrome, ...

As parents, we all want to provide our children with a life full of love, health, and happiness. However, life can throw challenges our way, some of which are more daunting than others. For many ...

One of the pitfalls of attending medical school is the distressing propensity to self-diagnose the very illness discussed during that day's clinic. At no point in a young doctor's training is this ...

Phoebe Gates revealed her father, Bill Gates, might have Asperger's syndrome, a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social communication. Celebrities like Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg have also ...

Can mirtazapine be used to treat OCD symtoms associated with Asperger's syndrome? The patient also has a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, is taking paroxetine and is suffering from sexual ...

The terminology related to autism can be confusing. Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist and paediatrician, first identified a subset of children of average intelligence or above who otherwise ...

As I pointed out in a previous post, female mammals deal with the problem of having two X chromosomes (left) to the male’s one by randomly inactivating one of them in each cell. The effect is ...