Early treatment alleviates symptoms but only 37 per cent of doctors are trained to identify it

Frail elderly and disabled people are being charged more for council help to get washed, dressed and fed at home, according to a survey.

More than a third of adults with autism have been bullied or discriminated against at work, the largest ever survey on the condition has found.

Smells like Regency teen spirit

A documentary on autism has wowed the TV critics, says Simon Usborne

Animals will help Alzheimer's patients remember their medicine and steer them through the day

In his new documentary, Louis Theroux told us, he would be exploring "the pleasures and strains of one of the most extraordinary kinds of relationship".

This extraordinary, vast little book enacts Larkin's almost-instinct, almost true: what has remained of him is love. Tom Lubbock was art critic of this paper for many years until a brain cancer removed, inch by inch, his language and then he died, stupidly young.

The 17-year-old who killed a pensioner during last year’s rioting in London has been locked up for eight years.

A charity is looking for 3,000 Parkinson's sufferers to take part in the biggest ever study into the cause of the disease. 

Eight people have died after a van ran through a crowded junction and struck pedestrians in the western Japanese city of Kyoto today.

Don't worry,it's all insidetheir heads

Taking a loved one to a suicide clinic isn't something most people would want to write a play about. Let alone when they've only just got married again. Emily Dugan meets Chris Larner

A racing circuit groundsman who was brain-damaged in a freak work accident has been awarded more than £2 million damages.