Spectrum: Autism Research News

The proposed guidelines would require scientists to destroy biological specimens if they don’t have the explicit consent of the participant for further use.

People with autism are more than twice as likely as their peers to die prematurely.

The largest study of people with autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder to date adds to mounting evidence that the two conditions share genetic roots.

Nearly half of siblings of children with autism have difficulties with attention, language, learning or mood.

A new tool marries an unusually bright fluorescent protein to a light-sensitive pigment to illuminate individual neurons as they fire.

An analysis of prenatal screening test results fuels the theory that abnormal levels of steroid hormones in the womb wire the developing brain for autism.