Spectrum: Autism Research News

Gender and sexuality appear to be more varied among autistic people than among neurotypical people. What do scientists know about the connection?

People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times as likely to be autistic as cisgender people are.

Mice missing the autism gene NLGN3 have altered social behaviors and brain responses to the hormone oxytocin, both of which improve after treatment with a drug that helps regulate protein production.

High rates of intellectual disability among Black autistic children may reflect diagnostic delays.

Women who use marijuana while pregnant may be more likely to give birth to an autistic child. But investigators call for a cautious interpretation of the results.

Repeating bits of the genome may be responsible for nearly 3 percent of the genetic architecture of autism.

With pandemic restrictions lifting, many researchers are cautiously returning to work.

Dampening overactive brain circuits alleviates social and memory problems in a mouse model of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.

Autistic girls’ brains respond more strongly to social stimuli than do autistic boys’.

Children with autism are more likely than typical children to have had problems falling asleep as infants, and to have shown brain overgrowth.