A new study published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling confirms the relative infrequency of genetic testing for autism.

Two large-scale neuroscience projects aim to integrate many different types of information about the brain into cohesive models and to share resources with the research community. 

Adolescents with autism report lower quality of life when it comes to relationships, but a better self-image and relationships with parents and teachers than do their typically developing peers, including those with diabetes.

Accurately measuring the severity of autism remains a challenge for the field. The answer may lie in using more than one approach that varies depending on whether it is being applied in a clinical or research context, says Raphael Bernier.

A survey asks clinical geneticists what type of incidental findings should be returned to people who have their genomes sequenced.

A new study suggests that children with both autism and gastrointestinal disorders have poorer language and social skills than those with autism alone.

Dysregulation of the intracellular signaling pathway RAS, a risk factor for idiopathic autism, may provide a unifying theory of the disorder. Although this is not an altogether new hypothesis, several new findings have strengthened the evidence for it considerably.

When children with autism make grammatical errors, is it due to a fundamental problem in language processing, or rather their difficulty understanding social interactions? Two new studies lend support to the latter idea.

Minority children tend to show more severe symptoms of autism early on, regardless of social class.

The characteristics, interactions and roles of autism-associated genes in the fruit flies’ brain will help guide how we think about the same genes in humans, says Ralph Greenspan.