The thick bundle of nerve fibers that links the left and right hemispheres of the brain develops differently in children with autism, a nine-year study has found.

A boy with autism maps the world from memory, and would-be profs are trapped in perpetual postdocs.

Researchers home in on the cerebellum’s role, and an app helps children with autism make eye contact.

Scientific art takes over Twitter, and college students on the spectrum describe their struggles.

Investors pour money into ‘brain medicines,’ and people with autism debate the need for a cure.

Nestled between galleries in Manhattan’s art district is a studio like no other. It brims with the energy of 40 artists, all of whom have autism.

Adapting traditional tests of intelligence for people with intellectual disability can deflate their scores over time. Somer Bishop calls for tests that more accurately assess intelligence in this group.

Adults in the general population fall into two clusters, each characterized by a subset of autism-like symptoms: social deficits and a fixation on details.

A method for measuring myelin, the protective sheath around neurons, indicates that there is less of it in the brains of people with autism than in those of controls.

Some siblings of people with autism struggle in adulthood with employment, relationships and mental health, according to new research.