We performed confirmatory analyses concerning various neonatal complications and a later diagnosis with ASDs, and infantile autism, specifically. Methods: A Danish population based cohort study ...

Autism is a devastating developmental neuropsychiatric ... more than a decade ago with regards to a rare syndrome known as infantile spasms. After a few epidemiological studies, and a US Institute ...

Autism is more common in kids of older parents. Psychiatrist Leo Kanner first coined the term "infantile autism" in 1943, but autism symptoms were documented and recognized as far back as the 1700s.