A new film takes on the question of whether people with autism truly fall in love.

Studies of the younger siblings of kids with autism are uprooting several standard assumptions about the course of the disorder.

Four scientists have written rebuttals to a study about ‘eagle-eye’ vision in autism, citing major flaws in the way the experiment was carried out.

President Obama nominated a new director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, the day after the agency released updated guidelines for stem cell research.

A new study pinpoints 27 regions of the genome that carry copy number variations in people with autism, but not healthy controls.

A behavioral study published earlier this month finds an intriguing link between autism and anorexia.

On a non-verbal test of intelligence, people with autism perform surprisingly well — with accuracy equal to and speeds up to 40 percent faster than those of healthy controls.

The newly launched Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) aims to find prenatal risk factors for autism by following 1,200 pregnant women who already have a child with the disorder.

The question of whether autism is a disease to be cured or an identity to be preserved is addressed in a review of two new books in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The complete mouse genome, released this week, shows that people and mice may not be as similar as everyone has assumed.