Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has sparked widespread outrage with disparaging remarks about autism ...

Over the course of a decades-long career, I had a number of fraught conversations with parents who desperately wanted their ...

A substantial proportion of patients with inflammatory bowel disease have avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder even when ...

Child diagnoses are rising; however, due to changing definitions, systems, and expectations, it is not an epidemic of illness. It reflects growing awareness and need.

For people concerned about the self-esteem and suicide ideation of those with autism, Kennedy sounded like his goal was to get rid of them.

He said vast changes to diagnostic criteria published over the decades ... It wasn't until the DSM-5, released in 2013, that multiple categories of autism, including Asperger's, ADHD, and Rett's ...

You also cannot have experienced psychosis. Unlike bipolar 1 disorder, the official clinical diagnostic criteria for bipolar 2 disorder require at least one depressive episode. The DSM-5-TR symptoms ...

“Within five years of an emergency room visit or hospitalization for cannabis, 5% of people were diagnosed with dementia, and within 10 years, 19% of people were diagnosed with dementia ...

Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Adults can have autism, and for many people, this condition is not diagnosed until adulthood. If you are wondering whether you or someone you care about has ...

and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)—into a single diagnosis: Autism Spectrum Disorder. The DSM-5 also introduced new criteria for diagnosing autism that ...