Asperger Syndrome

Binge eating and hoarding both get their own categories, while Asperger syndrome is no longer recognized as a diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — better known as the DSM-5 — which comes...

One man wakes in the dead of night, when the bugs are most active, to round them up by hand. Another spends hours on the phone every week, calling inspectors and lawyers and regulators and advocates. And yet another sprays insecticide directly onto his...

Morgan Lane Arnold, an emotionally frail 14-year-old freshman, navigated the hallways of her Howard County high school each day filled with anxiety, unable because of a learning disorder to decipher the social cues, jokes and emotions of her peers. Her...

On Friday, April 26, FOCUS Center for Autism held their well-attended "Celebrate FOCUS" dinner. This semi-formal event celebrated the accomplishments FOCUS made over the past year, and raised much-needed funds for FOCUS's programming. During the evening,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than 300 maladies (from "dependent personality disorder" and "voyeuristic...

CHICAGO (AP) — In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain "senior moments" are called "mild...

Every year for the past four years, sophomores at Ledyard High School have been given an assignment to explore an issue many people find hard to talk about -- their personal experience with mental illness. "Mental illness is part of every family, but so...

The pause between a question and Justin Seevers' answer is noticeable. It might even be a teaching moment. Maybe everyone should edit themselves in their minds before they speak. The North Kitsap High School junior has become adept at public speaking,...

Gary Hoffman wants to feel useful. In that way, he is like most people. In another way, he is different. He has Asperger's syndrome -- a developmental disorder that is on the autism spectrum -- which means he is intelligent but has trouble communicating...

On April 3, I asked readers to tell me why their mothers should be treated to a Mother's Day beauty makeover. A flood of emails and letters ensued, so many that I decided to share some more of the finalists today. Each of these moms plays a powerful...

Six people spoke at a Heartland Community College Board meeting on Tuesday in support of retaining Heartland baseball coach Nate Metzger as the school's athletics director, arguing that eliminating the AD position would harm the institution and its...

A Slatington woman sentenced in March to up to a decade in prison for accidentally shooting her 19-month-old son in the head and killing him while unloading a gun she planned to sell to a drug dealer tearfully asked a judge Tuesday to reduce her sentence....