Spectrum: Autism Research News

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 30 August.

An autism brain imaging study published seven years ago received an expression of concern last month after its authors failed to uphold a promise to make their raw data freely available.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 23 August.

Thousands of protein-protein interactions mapped in mice reveal how these networks shift across seven kinds of tissue.

In this edition of By the Numbers, we discuss the outsize burden of COVID-19 among some groups of autistic people, expansions in Medicaid waivers for autism and how an autistic person’s age at diagnosis may affect their risk for other conditions.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 9 August.

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 2 August

Here is a roundup of news and research for the week of 26 July.

Girls are more likely to have various other conditions, such as anxiety or an eating disorder, if they are diagnosed with autism as a teenager, compared with girls diagnosed as children. The findings may suggest that clinicians miss diagnosing some autistic girls unless they also have co-occurring conditions.

A large, whole-genome sequencing study of families yields insights into ultra-rare genetic variants that contribute to autism.