There is something no doubt ironic about recommending as a Christmas gift a book written by a Jewish man, but given the holiday spirit, it was the best way I could think to convey what I think about ...

How we tell stories matters. “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity,” a lively, readable new book by journalist Steve Silberman, is about the many ways we have told the ...

“Not everything that steps out of the line, and is thus ‘abnormal,’ must necessarily be ‘inferior.’” –Hans Asperger [Note: This review and interview initially appeared at PLOS Blogs and are reproduced ...

Is autism a natural manifestation of human diversity—or a condition to be cured? That’s the question at the heart of Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of ...

This morning’s news brought me a story about a school in Australia that constructed a large metal cage to hold one of its students, a 10-year-old child with autism, when he could no longer control ...

When Steve Silberman was a reporter covering Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, he noticed what seemed like a common thread in the families of many tech executives: children diagnosed with autism. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silberman at the Hay literary festival in May 2016 - Keith Morris/Alamy Steve Silberman, who has died aged 66, was a science ...

“A six-year-old boy,” reported the Times of India, “has been returned to his parents after being in the company of wolves for four and a half years.” In the fall of 1957, shortly after this story ...

It’s a fun parlour game to diagnose figures from the past with illnesses recognised by modern science. Did the biblical Goliath have the growth disorder acromegaly? Was Henry VIII a psychopath? Was ...