About one in three autistic people in the United Kingdom is prescribed drugs designed to alter brain function.

A new advocacy group for people with severe autism taps into the deep divide in the community over who should speak for those on the spectrum.

Una remota ciudad colombiana es el hogar del grupo más grande de personas con síndrome de X frágil. Los científicos están aprendiendo de ellos y tratando de ayudar.

At a center in Lima, Peru, people with autism learn to identify their strengths and find jobs that play to those strengths.

Getting an autism diagnosis can be difficult for many adults, due to the dearth of reliable tests, high costs and bureaucracy.

Autistic women’s activity in a ‘social’ brain region tracks with the extent to which they mask their autism.

Autistic people with a minority sexual orientation or gender identity face specific challenges, from having their self-assessments dismissed to difficulties advocating for their gender needs.

The rising prevalence of autism is not leveling off, according to a new study that accounts for every diagnosis made in Denmark over 32 years.

Just 16 percent of adults with autism are in full-time paid employment, and those who do get a job often face discrimination and isolation at work.

A remote Colombian town is home to the world’s largest cluster of people with fragile X syndrome. Scientists are learning from them — and trying to help.