The American Psychiatric Association plans to remove the term 'Asperger's' from its new diagnostic manual, set for release in 2013 -- a decision that has sparked criticism from advocacy groups.

Phoebe Gates revealed her father, Bill Gates, might have Asperger's syndrome, a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social communication. Celebrities like Elon Musk and Greta Thunberg have also ...

The more formal description of Asperger's syndrome, from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM IV), is detailed in the Table below.

Asperger's Syndrome was first described in the 1940s by an Austrian pediatrician, Hans Asperger, who noticed that he had many patients with deficient social and communicative skills even though ...