Severe self-injurious behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a significant risk of permanent physical injury. Not all children respond to behavioral therapies. Findings from a ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) may offer a viable treatment strategy for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who display severe self-injurious behavior. In a first-in-human pilot trial of ...

Wearable sensors and machine learning can forecast self-injurious behavior in autistic youth, enabling proactive ...

My first introduction to self-harm in autism was with headbanging. While headbanging is a relatively uncommon version of self-harm in the general population, for autistic individuals, headbanging is ...

People with autism are typically diagnosed by clinical observation and assessment. To deconstruct the clinical decision process, which is often subjective and difficult to describe, researchers used a ...

Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways Severe autism, or level 3 autism spectrum disorder, describes ...