In light of the tragic events in Newtown, Conn., it has come to light through the media that the gunman was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and an unknown psychiatric disorder, even though these ...

In 1938, an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger gave the first public talk on autism in history. Asperger was speaking to an audience of Nazis, and he feared that his patients — children who ...

We have a natural, if often regrettable, tendency to fear the things we don't understand. In the aftermath of the Newtown shootings that claimed the lives of 20 young children, the blogosphere seized ...

The other day, I saw this YouTube video called, What Kind of Asian Are You? It's funny, but also painful, as it exposes many Caucasian stereotypes of their Asian Americans in the United States. Rudy ...

As more details are learned about Adam Lanza, the young man accused in the Newtown shooting, we've heard reports that he lived with Asperger's Syndrome. That's a disorder that falls in the spectrum of ...

Asperger’s syndrome is sometimes described as high-functioning autism. It’s now diagnosed under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is a group of neurodevelopmental conditions that ...

PASADENA – When William “Billy” Cottrell hops on a bus and returns to an Arizona federal prison to teach physics and cosmology classes to prisoners soon, he will do so without a jury ever having heard ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Seth Mnookin ASPERGER’S CHILDREN The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna By Edith Sheffer ...

Asperger’s Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there’s been IT. So why aren’t we doing better by the Aspies among us? Editor’s note: This story, and the underlying topic, was the focus of a ...