Spectrum: Autism Research News

Young autistic children with sleep troubles tend to have difficulty regulating their behavior later in childhood.

Cut off from clients by the pandemic, clinicians are turning to video conferencing and other technologies to diagnose children with autism.

Some people with autism have an unusually large head. What causes the enlargement? And does it have any bearing on outcome?

Following a series of scandals in the United Kingdom over people with autism being held against their will and mistreated in hospitals, a watchdog group has issued a legal challenge to the government.

Over the past decade, biologists have increasingly been posting their research results on preprint servers, ahead of the results’ publication in traditional scientific journals.

Adults with autism vary enormously in their quality of life, and two factors may explain most of this variation.

People with autism are at increased odds of having other psychiatric conditions, such as anxiety and depression, but the links can be counterintuitive.

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union would endanger continent-wide collaborations.